Helen Keller Quotes – Inspiring Words from a Remarkable Woman

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

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

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Your success and happiness lies in you.

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

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

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

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

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

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.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

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

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

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

It is a terrible thing to be alone – surrounded by love and yet being unable to reach it.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

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

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

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight with no vision.

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

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

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