Quotes By Helen Keller

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

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

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

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

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

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

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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

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.

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 something that I can do.

Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

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.

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.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

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

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

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

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

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

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.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.