Helen Keller Quotes
Most popular Helen Keller Quotes
Literature is my Utopia.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
We can do anything we want to do, if we stick to it long enough.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Life is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.
The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.
The most pathetic man in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
The simplest way to be happy is to do good. This is instant and infallible happiness.
It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world.
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
The best-educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The best and most beautiful things in world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with heart.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor heard, nor touched . . . but are felt in the heart.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower—the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
All true service is God's service, when we do the best we can. We never know what miracle is wrought in our own life or the life of another.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
There are no such things as divine, immutable or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim to them.
Many men have the wrong idea about what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
I believe that life is given us so we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment nor awkwardness.
A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.
I used to think—when I was small, and before I could read—that everybody was always happy, and at first it made me very sad to know about pain and great sorrow; but now I know that we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all—the apathy of human beings.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me a horror of a family feud. I look upon true patriotism as the brotherhood of man and the service of all to all.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
