- A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Blessed are the Flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape. ~ Sue Petrie Marsha
- Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. ~ George Bancroft
- Don’t look at the shape — look at the character. ~ Turkish Proverb
- Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything. ~ B. F. Skinner
- Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. ~ Heinrich Heine
- However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. ~ Eric Hoffer
- I feel it now. There’s a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world; I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ideas shape the course of history. ~ John Maynard Keynes
- I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl. ~ Bjork
- It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. ~ Anthony Robbins
- Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. ~ Robert H. Schuller
- Life… It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. ~ Richard M. DeVos
- Love is like the sea, it’s a moving thing; but still it takes its shape from the shore it meets and it’s different with every shore. ~ Zora Neale Hurston
- Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. ~ Rene Dubos
- Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour. ~ Fidel Castro
- My gift is that I’m not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It’s about health and being in good shape. ~ Shirley MacLaine
- My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. ~ Elaine Maxwell
- Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations. ~ Federico Fellini
- Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments. ~ Joseph Addison
- The currents that determine our dreams and shape our lives, flow from the attitudes that we nurture everyday. ~ Author Unknown
- The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape. ~ William Shakespeare
- The object of art is to give life a shape. ~ William Shakespeare
- The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. ~ Eric Hoffer
- There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
- Usually a poem takes shape accoustically – a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. ~ Thomas Lynch
- We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset. ~ Darren L. Johnson
- We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. ~ Marshall McLuhan
- We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. ~ Albert Camus
- We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. ~ Orison Swett Marden
- We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. ~ Winston Churchill
- We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us. ~ Marshall McLuhan
- What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. ~ Lionel Trilling
- When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we’d talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became. ~ Jill Scott
- You shape your own destiny. ~ Chet Atkins
- You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in. ~ Theodor Geisel
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