Quotes By 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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

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.