Helen Keller Quotes

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

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His works.

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.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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