Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.
Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.
It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Man is the creature of circumstances.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.