Quotes by Helen Keller

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, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

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

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

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.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but the disabilities we impose upon ourselves by our own inadequacies and fears.

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

Happiness is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

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

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

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Quotes by Helen Keller part 2

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

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

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

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.

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

Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.

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.

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

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

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

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.

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.

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

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.

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.

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

The spiritual vitality which sustains independence and individuality is not the result of mere human effort or mere human reasoning, but springs from that deep fountain of divine energy which makes effort and reasoning possible.

Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose – musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

The country is made by the people for the people, and we cannot once los a sense of the divine responsibility and of the moral tenderness which this idea inspires. We cannot admit unnecessary ignorance or helplessness, or excessive impost upon charity, without disloyalty to that sacred pledge written upon the banner of democracy: ‘One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.’