Quotes by Helen Keller

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

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.

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.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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

- The Story of My Life

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight… When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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

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 the something I can do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.

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.

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.

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

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

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

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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.

- My Religion, 1927

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.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

- The Open Door (1957)

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

- 'Optimism,' 1903

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

The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

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.

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

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 opened for us.

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

- Out of the Dark

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Your success and happiness lie within you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.