“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”
「如果你希望周遭环境改变，答案或许是让自己成为不同的人。」– 诺曼‧文森特‧皮尔 (牧师)
“It is a lesson which all history teaches the wise, to put trust in ideas and not in circumstance.”
「所有的历史都教智者一件事，就是对想法而非环境保持信心。」– 拉尔夫‧爱默生 (诗人)
“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.”
「我决定在每个情境中保持愉悦与快乐，因为我已学到，我们大部份的不快乐及不幸都不是取决于环境，而是我们的人格特质。」– 马莎‧华盛顿 (美国第一夫人)
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
「我不是环境的产物，而是我决定的产物。」– 史蒂芬‧柯维 (励志作家)
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
「环境控制弱者，但它却是智者的工具。」– 山姆‧勒夫尔 (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.”
「人不是环境的产物，环境是人的产物。我们可以自由行动，人的力量比物质还大。」– 班杰明‧迪斯雷利 (英国首相)
“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.'”
「我的头发被拉扯，我被皮带抽打，隔壁家的孩子也是这样，当时就是这种样子，我见到许多孩子都被他们的父母摧毁，那是当时德国及奥国人的心态，他们不想创造独特的个人，而是都要求顺从，我是那个不顺从的人，且意志不会被摧毁。因此，我成为一个叛逆者，每次我被打时，每次有人说，『你不能这么做』，我会说，『这种情形不会持续太久，因为我将搬离这里，我想变得富有，我想成为一个重要的人。』」– 阿诺‧史瓦辛格 (演员)
