I am lucky to have had an attentive curious and loving dad and heart-smart down-to-earth gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

To act coolly intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes creatively and spiritually.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

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

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may by change of circumstances become his own.

What we actually learn from any given set of circumstances determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Under any circumstance simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgment self-abuse and regret.

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgment self-abuse and regret.

Achievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

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.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

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.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Happiness is an attitude of mind born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

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.

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution and it's amazing how good we are at it.