I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
Milton Friedman

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. Washington

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

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman 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

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

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Herodotus

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
Herodotus

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Thomas Aquinas

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke

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

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Lord Byron

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume

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

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
Dave Barry

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

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
Tony Blair