Post #3148

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
—Chinese Proverb

Post #3135

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
—Menander

Post #3036

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
—Stephen Covey

Post #3013

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.
—William Wordsworth

Post #2987

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
—William Makepeace Thackeray

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Post #2962

To give and to lose, is nothing ; but to lose and to give still, is the part of a great mind.
—Seneca

Post #2884

A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.
—Sophocles

Post #2291

It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
—Epictetus

Post #2182

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
—Samuel Johnson

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Post #2117

We all, according as our business prospers or fails, are elated or cast down.
—Terence

Post #2001

Misfortune does not always wait on vice; nor is success the constant guest of virtue.
—William Havard

Post #1943

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
—David Hume

Post #1853

If you cannot frame your circumstances in accordance with your wishes, frame your will into harmony with your circumstances.
—Epictetus

Post #1669

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

Post #956

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
—Plutarch

Post #889

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
—Oscar Wilde

Post #347

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
—Henry Kissinger

Post #186

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
—Samuel Lover

Post #164

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
—Vince Lombardi

Post #153

The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
—JP Morgan