Helen Keller Quotes – Inspiring Words from a Remarkable Life

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller

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

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. – Helen Keller

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. – Helen Keller

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. – Helen Keller

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. – Helen Keller

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. – Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance. – Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. – Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller

A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn. – Helen Keller

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Helen Keller

Helen Keller Quotes – Inspiring Words from a Remarkable Life part 2

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. – Helen Keller

Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. – Helen Keller

The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Helen Keller

True friends never apart. Maybe in distance, but never in heart. – Helen Keller

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

Your success and happiness lie in you. – Helen Keller

Life is either a great adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance. – Helen Keller

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses. – Helen Keller

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. – Helen Keller

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. – Helen Keller

College isn’t the place to go for ideas. – Helen Keller

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

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. – Helen Keller

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. – Helen Keller

I cannot do everything, but I can do something. – Helen Keller

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. – Helen Keller

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. – Helen Keller

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. – Helen Keller

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all. – Helen Keller

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower. – Helen Keller

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. – Helen Keller

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a man-made world. – Helen Keller

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. – Helen Keller

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. – Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision. – Helen Keller

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. – Helen Keller

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

The highest result of education is tolerance. – Helen Keller

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision. – Helen Keller

Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller