#circumstances

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

#find #get #look #make #people

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

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When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term. ↗

— Harry Stack Sullivan

#becomes #circumstances #exists #love #other

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup. ↗

— Hilary Swank

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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#adapt #assumption #changing #circumstances #deny

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adopt #been #certain #circumstances #determined

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

— Herodotus

#exceedingly #fortunate #many #men #middling

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way. ↗

— Erich Hoeber

#attracted #been #being #characters #circumstances

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#anywhere #by the people #circumstances #conditions #elections

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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