Helen Keller Quotes

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

• I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

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

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

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

• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

• Once I knew only darkness and stillness … my life was without past or future … but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

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

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

• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

• 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 a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

• Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

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

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

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