"Circumstances do not make you what you..." - Quote by John C Maxwell

“Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.”

“If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.”

“People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.”

“As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.”

“Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.”

“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.”

“The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.”

“The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.”

“Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.”