Helen Keller quotes

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

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.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

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.

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.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

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.

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.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

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.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

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.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, 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.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

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.