Helen Keller Quotes

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

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all. Helen Keller

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

The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller

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

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. Helen Keller

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

The best way out is always through. 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

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

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

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. Helen Keller

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. 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

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Helen Keller

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

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. Helen Keller

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. 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

College isn't the place to go for ideas. Helen Keller

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

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does. Helen Keller

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. Helen Keller

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. Helen Keller

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Helen Keller

I have often been asked, "Do not people bore you?" I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating. Helen Keller

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