I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances.

Circumstances are beyond the control of man, but his conduct is in his own power.

I am I plus my circumstances.

What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement ... and the manly and wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made of them.

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.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

There's a way out of every situation.