A Quote by James Lane Allen

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

James Lane Allen

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James Lane Allen
American - Novelist
December 21, 1849 - February 18, 1925

But regardless of our circumstances, they do not define us - not unless we give in and let them. Circumstances never determine who we are; they reveal who we are.

Chuck Pagano

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

James Allen

Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances." Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?

Megan Whalen Turner

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Epictetus

Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now.

Wayne Dyer

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

Richard Carlson

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

Brian Tracy

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

Nido Qubein

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

Dan Miller

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

William Halsey

Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or sophistry. For it strikes him with two terrible weapons, Intuition and Beauty, and at the single root in him of all his energies... Art and Poetry awaken the dreams of man, and his longings, and reveal to him some of the abysses he has in himself.

Jacques Maritain

We must look at the personality of Jesus and see him under various circumstances - circumstances not unlike our own - and then praise him by imitating him to the best of our ability.

Mother Angelica

Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human life, as to what is good and what is evil. This is true in the present day as at any former time. To understand an age or a nation, we must understand its philosophy, and to understand its philosophy we must ourselves be in some degree philosophers. There is here a reciprocal causation: the circumstances of men s lives do much to determine their philosophy, but, conversely, their philosophy does much to determine their circumstances.

Bertrand Russell

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Augustus Hare

With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.

Marianne Williamson

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