Helen Keller Quotes

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

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

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

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

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.

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

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

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

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

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

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

Things must be felt with the heart.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

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

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

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

Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.

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.

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

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.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

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

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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

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.

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.

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.

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

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

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

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

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

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

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.

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

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

I never fight, except against difficulties.