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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

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.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.