Quotes By Helen Keller

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

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight 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.

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.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

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

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

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

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

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

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

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

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.

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

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

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

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.