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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

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Benjamin Disraeli

PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

4.2 · 52 votes

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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Circumstance

EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

4.5 · 48 votes · 122 reads

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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

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PhilosopherScottish1711 · 18th century

3.7 · 36 votes · 110 reads

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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Vincent van Gogh

PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

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Bertrand Russell

PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

4.1 · 33 votes

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It is a fact that you project what you are.

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WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

3.0 · 23 votes

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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

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Christian Nestell Bovee

AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

3.9 · 60 votes · 197 reads

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Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

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3.3 · 47 votes

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Man is more powerful than matter.

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Benjamin Disraeli

PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

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Benjamin Disraeli

PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

4.9 · 39 votes · 146 reads

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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
4.4 · 43 votes · 115 reads
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Men's activities are occupied into ways - in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
William Hazlitt
EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century
4.1 · 44 votes · 108 reads
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No person is either as happy or as unhappy as they imagine. Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.
Anonymous
4.8 · 60 votes · 52 reads
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
WriterIrish1856 · 19th century
4.9 · 17 votes · 3 reads
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The one who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it
Anonymous
4.8 · 47 votes · 11 reads
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