Your Circumstances Do Not Define You Quotes

#1. Your circumstances do not define you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Ivan Turgenev

#3. Instead, she found her argument in the "doctrine of necessity," an idea established in common law that in certain limited circumstances, which no parliament would ever care to define, it was permissible to break the criminal law to prevent a greater evil.

Ian McEwan

#4. You see, events occur throughout our lives that forever alter us, and it is how we react to those circumstances that define who we are.

Day Parker

#5. Habits are a way of life and often define our lives. Habitually miserable? You'll see misery in most circumstances. Habitually joyful? You'll see joy in most situations. My goal is to choose habits that empower me and break those that wear me down.

Charles F. Glassman

#6. You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing.

Raphael Zernoff

#7. If you believe that the qualities defining you are carved in stone, you will be stuck trying to prove them over and over again, regardless of the circumstances. But if you have a growth mindset, you believe the qualities that define you can be modified and cultivated through effort.

Eric Schmidt

#8. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

Christina Baker Kline

#9. Never let a name or circumstances define you. Rise above it and one day you'll realize you're worth fighting for"

-That Girl.

H.J. Bellus

#10. Don't allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don't have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education.

Mary Hatwood Futrell

#11. If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. I cite the great civilizations of China and India.

Theodore Dreiser

#12. You must define success as making the complete effort to maximize your ability, skills, and potential in whatever circumstances - good or bad - may exist.

John Wooden

#13. Circumstances won't define me, I will define my circumstances.

Beate Chelette

#14. I think the community that you're in really can define your ability to be at peace with your circumstances.

Nick Jonas

#15. It's not the circumstances we find ourselves in that define us, it's how we overcome them.

Nicole Reed

#16. The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.

Leo Babauta