A person cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he…

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

— James Allen

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A…

— James Allen

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

— James Allen

“We cannot choose our circumstances, but we can choose how we handle them.”

— Markus Pappa

“People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."—As A Man Thinketh”

— Vic Johnson

“Our self-motivation suffers most from how we choose to see the circumstances in our lives. That’s because we don’t see things as they are,…

— Steve Chandler

“With every sunrise, we get to choose ... who we are, what we believe, and how we will live the life the gods have…

— Nicole Y. Walters

“The mantra of the victim is, “If not for the events and circumstances of the world, I would be happy.” The world is often…

— Darren Main

shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

— Ann Patchett

“There are a thousand circumstances in which a man may be justified in a particular course of action, and that course yet may be…

— James Malcolm Rymer

When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as…

— Bernardino Ramazzini

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

— John Grisham

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to…

— Anonymous

Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

— James Allen