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

• 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 key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thoughts
  • Circumstances
  • Meeting

• With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Think
  • Thoughts

• You can poke fun at some pretty difficult circumstances, and it's just a way to pop the bubble. I don't do that thing onstage usually, but offstage sometimes I might.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Sometimes
  • Difficult
  • Circumstances

• The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Death
  • Terror

• And when he saw the letter, her first letter, the first bit of her handwriting, by his plate at breakfast, he seized it so quickly and turned so red that Lewes was painfully clear as to who had written it. Poor Chris. Cumfrit. Clutches….

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Letter
  • Handwriting
  • Painfully

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

  

  Helen Keller
  • Circumstances