Helen Keller Quotes

It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong but it will advance its allotted length.
Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
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.
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
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
I seldom think about my limitations and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His works.
Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
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
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller
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
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.
Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller
When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller
When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
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 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
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
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
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.
Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller
When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller
When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. 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.
Helen Keller
Literature is my utopia.
Helen Keller
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.
Helen Keller
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
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 rhe light of love shone on me in that very hour.
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
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Helen Keller
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.
Helen Keller
[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller
I never fight except against difficulties.
Helen Keller
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.
Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land."
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
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller