“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”
「如果你希望周遭環境改變，答案或許是讓自己成為不同的人。」– 諾曼‧文森特‧皮爾 (牧師)
“It is a lesson which all history teaches the wise, to put trust in ideas and not in circumstance.”
「所有的歷史都教智者一件事，就是對想法而非環境保持信心。」– 拉爾夫‧愛默生 (詩人)
“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.”
「我決定在每個情境中保持愉悅與快樂，因為我已學到，我們大部份的不快樂及不幸都不是取決於環境，而是我們的人格特質。」– 馬莎‧華盛頓 (美國第一夫人)
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
「我不是環境的產物，而是我決定的產物。」– 史蒂芬‧柯維 (勵志作家)
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
「環境控制弱者，但它卻是智者的工具。」– 山姆‧勒夫爾 (作家)
“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”
「人不是環境的產物，環境是人的產物。我們可以自由行動，人的力量比物質還大。」– 班傑明‧迪斯雷利 (英國首相)
“My hair was pulled. I was hit with belts. So was the kid next door. It was just the way it was. Many of the children I’ve seen were broken by their parents, which was the German-Austrian mentality. They didn’t want to create an individual. It was all about conforming. I was one who did not conform, and whose will could not be broken. Therefore, I became a rebel. Every time I got hit, and every time someone said, ‘you can’t do this,’ I said, ‘this is not going to be for much longer, because I’m going to move out of here. I want to be rich. I want to be somebody.'”
「我的頭髮被拉扯，我被皮帶抽打，隔壁家的孩子也是這樣，當時就是這種樣子，我見到許多孩子都被他們的父母摧毀，那是當時德國及奧國人的心態，他們不想創造獨特的個人，而是都要求順從，我是那個不順從的人，且意志不會被摧毀。因此，我成為一個叛逆者，每次我被打時，每次有人說，『你不能這麼做』，我會說，『這種情形不會持續太久，因為我將搬離這裡，我想變得富有，我想成為一個重要的人。』」– 阿諾‧史瓦辛格 (演員)
