Helen Keller Quotes

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

Helen Keller

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• I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • American
  • Law

• So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Circumstances
  • Others
  • Tool

• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Circumstances
  • Nuclear

• You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • People
  • You
  • Circumstances

• Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Law
  • Circumstances
  • Rules

• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wise

• Given (Scotty's Paving) circumstances, I don't think the Fiscal Court should hold (the company's) feet to the fire.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Fire
  • Circumstances

• Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n' roll, but I like it. It's fun, and it's better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Fun
  • Running
  • Rock

• You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Up
  • Work
  • Career

• This is something that is extremely hard, ... You don't like doing this. I don't. Sometimes you don't chart the circumstances or what happens - it just happens. Certainly it wasn't the plan I had going in, but sometimes plans change, and I think you do the best you can in dealing with it.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Thinking
  • Circumstances

• In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • Done
  • Christian

• Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Sleep
  • Dog

• I really don't think it would be wise to speculate in an abstract way about the circumstances in which it might be on the agenda.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
  • Abstract

• The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Lost

• Circumstances should never alter principles!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Should
  • Circumstances
  • Principles

• Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Circumstances

• If you want prosperity, you must refuse to accept any circumstances that lead toward poverty.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Poverty
  • Circumstances
  • Prosperity

• Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Failure
  • Circumstances

• The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances. ... Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.

  

  John Dalton
  • Country
  • Reason
  • Doubt

• The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Funny
  • Doctors
  • Operations

• It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Knows
  • Okay
  • Be You

• The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Help
  • Duty
  • Gifts

• We are so used to “doing” that it may seem like a chore just to “be.”

  

  Edmund Bourne
  • Doing
  • Chore

• The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Circumstances