“History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.”
Donald Creighton
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Character, not circumstances, make the man.”
Booker T. Washington
“What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way”
Abraham Lincoln
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.”
Bruce Barton
“Though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumstances; and what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of free will is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our o”
John Stuart Mill
“A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.”
Hesketh Pearson
