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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Charles R. Swindoll
Education
Attitude
People
Money
Important
Past
Say
Circumstances
More
Than
Skill
Appearance
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor E. Frankl
Attitude
Man
Own
Everything
Way
Circumstances
One Thing
Given
Taken
Freedoms
Any
Human
Choose
Thing
Last
Set
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.
Christopher McCandless
Life
Change
Peace
Reality
People
Unhappy
Mind
Will
Situation
Nothing
Live
Peace Of Mind
Circumstances
Security
Spirit
Give
More
Take
Adventurous
Because
Within
Conditioned
May
So Many People
Which
Conformity
Many
Appear
Initiative
Damaging
Conservation
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
Best
Failure
Mistake
Circumstances
Simply
Always
Real
Trying
May
Stop
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn
You
Change
Yourself
Responsibility
Wind
Circumstances
Charge
Must
Something
Take
Personal
Cannot
Personal Responsibility
Seasons
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Saint Augustine
Time
Good
You
Accidents
Pay
Those
Circumstances
Brought
Attention
Since
Closer
Cannot
Place
Special
Who
Connection
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.
Joyce Meyer
Moving On
Good
Be Happy
Happy
Feeling
Sorry
Control
Energy
Others
Our
Circumstances
Ourselves
Absolutely
Most
Does
Decide
Regardless
Us
Planet
Useless
Waste
The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Truth
Health
Thoughts
Challenges
Truth Is
Stress
Other
Circumstances
Kids
About
Boss
Come
Spouse
Traffic
Your
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
Kindness
Soul
Practice
Earnestness
Virtue
Circumstances
Perfect
Generosity
Sincerity
Five
Things
Gravity
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice
Cause
Philanthropist
Philanthropy
Circumstances
Must
Economic
Make
Overlook
Commendable
Which
Necessary
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Bruce Lee
Opportunities
Hell
Circumstances
Create
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. Washington
Character
Man
Circumstances
Makes
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
Life
Best
Man
Dignity
Grace
Accidents
Circumstances
Bears
Ideal
Ideal Man
Making
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
James Allen
Man
Circumstances
Make
Him
Reveal
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
Prayer
Desperate
Circumstances
Relief
Denied
Provides
Urgent
Certain
Profanity
Even
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Walters
Happiness
Attitude
Be Happy
Happy
Determination
Simple
Mind
Circumstances
Born
Outward
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing
Circumstances
Gives
Remain
Advantage
Over
Another
Always
Person
Much
Cool
The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
Marianne Williamson
Thoughts
Key
Meeting
Unlimited
Circumstances
Abundance
Limited
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Anne Lamott
Life
Truth
Good
You
People
Problem
Illusion
Power
Enjoy
Spend
Circumstances
Out
Find
About
Over
Look
How
Odd
Been
Precious
Precious Life
Trying
Taste
Going
Whether
Creating
Your
Who
If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.
Jocko Willink
You
Blame
People
Ego
Will
Other
Way
Circumstances
Only
Look
Get
Your
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
Denzel Washington
Happiness
Faith
Me
Peace
Circumstances
Understand
Dictate
Helps
Inner
Inner Peace
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
People
World
Circumstances
Find
Look
Make
Up
Get
Want
Them
Who
Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
Dave Barry
Sleeping
Circumstances
Take
Never
Pill
Same
Any
Any Circumstances
Night
We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
People
Result
Nothing
Second-Hand
Our
Guided
Circumstances
Ourselves
Kinds
Tendencies
Clear
Environment
New
Accept
Pristine
Been
Discovered
Influences
Either
Us
Nothing New
Original
Lived
Compelled
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
James Allen
Men
Circumstances
Remain
Bound
Unwilling
Improve
Anxious
Themselves
Therefore
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke
Great
Justice
Legal
Society
Circumstances
Lies
Civil
Civil Society
Eminent
Policy
Itself
Departure
Any
Any Circumstances
Suspicion
Being
Standing
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