Mark Twain Quotes

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.

Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'

It's up to the individual to make the best of what life has dealt.

Ultimately, it's one's upbringing, consciousness and circumstances that decide the path you'll choose.

People make their own destinies.

I am glad I am born in this era, but, at the same time, my success will totally depend on the choices I make.

Every man is the author of his own life.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.

We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

We are the choices we make.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.

How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.