Environment Quotes

By Robert Schmatz III

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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

-Tony Robbins

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

-Mark Caine

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

-W. Clement Stone

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

-Earl Nightingale

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

-William James

In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.

-Andrew Motion

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

-Arthur Helps

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

-Roger Tory Peterson

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

-W. Clement Stone

Each environment has its own signature. Sounds tell a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.

-Stephen Hopkins

The environment is everything that isn't me.

-Albert Einstein

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

-Ansel Adams