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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit. Christopher McCandless

Life, Security, Adventurous

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. - Nido Qubein

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. Nido Qubein

Inspirational, Go, Determine

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

Education, Past, More

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

Ideal, Making, Ideal Man

The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work. Fabrizio Moreira

Work, Woman, Willing

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

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

Love, Change, People Change

With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.' Yayoi Kusama

Through, Dot, Pursuing

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. B. F. Skinner

Failure, Mistake, Always

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. Viktor E. Frankl

Attitude, Given, Set

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts. - Marianne Williamson

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts. Marianne Williamson

Thoughts, Unlimited, Limited

We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances. Rachel Corrie

Kind, Difficult, Show

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself. Maeve Binchy

Think, I Think, In The Past

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. Saint Augustine

Accidents, Pay, Brought

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. Anne Lamott

Truth, Taste, Been

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. Jim Rohn

Change, Seasons, Charge

I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control. Q'orianka Kilcher

I Think, Had, Youths

But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current. Carre Otis

Karma, Balls, Curve

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future. Barbara Jordan

Innovation, Better Future

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. Denzel Washington

Happiness, Inner Peace

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless. Joyce Meyer

Moving On, Planet, Waste

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. Martha Washington

Happiness, Part, Depends

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. - Bruce Lee

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. Bruce Lee

Opportunities, Create, Hell

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Been, Kinds, Discovered

To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control. Jeff Kober

Serenity, Some, Semblance

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

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

Character, Man, Makes

No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it. - Ray Lewis

No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it. Ray Lewis

May, Going, Through

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