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George Bernard Shaw – circumstance

Mind Quote / Dublin, Republic of Ireland / 1856 – 1950 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Strzelecki monument, Jindabyne Australia / LoadingBookmark / Print /
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I don’t believe in circumstance, the people that get on in this world,
are the people that get up and look for their circumstances they want,
and if they don’t find them, they make them.

– George Bernard Shaw

 

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