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“My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.”

Goal Failing Circumstances Succeed

Author:Jerry Moran

“... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.”

Circumstances Succeed My Friends Disappointment Excellent Listeners

Book:The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant

Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant

“For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.”

Men Doe Book Reason Form Greater Particular Circumstances Succeed Equal Species Harm Cease Impression Nonsense Absurdity Wickedness Dominion

Book:The Letters of David Hume:

Source: The Letters of David Hume:

“To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed.”

Thinking Should Mind Firsts Believe Form Accepting Circumstances Succeed Thinking Differently

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

“You just don't want your child to ever feel like they have less of an opportunity to succeed based on the circumstances in which they were born. I try to be optimistic about everything. There are no victims in my home.”

Trying Children Home Opportunity Circumstances Succeed Our Children Victim Optimistic Your Children

Author:Nia Long

“If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it.”

“Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the man or the artist who is called for by all the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet, some other saint...They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else's experiences or write somebody else's poems.”

Men Writing Years Mind Reason Body Artist Individual Religious Effort Particular Poet Circumstances Succeed Waste Saint Vain Hopeless Endeavor Monk Mind And Body Individual Life

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.”

Giving Should Trying Our Lives Circumstances Succeed Giving Up Bounds Obstacles Again And Again Motto Not Giving Up Try Again

Author:Sri Chinmoy