Some circumstances can be controlled, but others may occur without any opportunity to change them. Often people take credit when something goes right, but when things fail the circumstances are commonly blamed instead of the individual taking personal responsibility. No matter what circumstances you find yourself in how you react will reveal your true character as a person.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise
The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am