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Letter "C" » circumstances
«Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
beyond control, circumstances, conduct
«Character, not circumstances, make the man.»
«A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.»
Author: Hugh Downs
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Happiness
| Keywords:
attitudes, certain, circumstances, happy, In a, person, rather, set, set about, under the circumstances
«Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.»
«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.»
Author: Mario Andretti
(Race driver)
| About:
Circumstances,
Goals
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adding, circumstances, delaying, delays, increasing, interruptions, lost cause, occurs, prepare, sight
«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.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(Actor, Comic)
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Attitude
| Keywords:
appearance, circumstances, education, skill
«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.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
achievement, circumstances, endeavor, persistent, reputed
«Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Peace
| Keywords:
circumstances, outside, peace, unaffected
«All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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against, animosities, animosity, as needed, circumstances, feel, Feel the Need, found, founds, help, help out, in trouble, just, Just War, killing, killings, must, musts, needed, no., no, On War, other, personal, Strangers, Them, The Killing, The War of the, trouble, under the circumstances, war, warring, WHO, would
«Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.»
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