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.
- Mario AndrettiNo object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
- Oscar WildeCircumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be
- Mark TwainNothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas JeffersonJourneys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
- Lawrence DurrellHe is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances
- David HumeThe people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am
- Laura SchlessingerNo matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.
- Joseph BrodskyA man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
- Harvey S. FirestoneCircumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
- Samuel Lover