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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

— Orison Swett Marden

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

— Arthur Keith

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

— Daniel Webster

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

— Francis Bacon

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

— Laura Dern

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

— Ayn Rand

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

— Dorothy Day

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

— Rene Dubos

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

✗Opposing Perspectives

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

— Orison Swett Marden