If you’re looking for some inspiration, look no further than Helen Keller. She was a remarkable woman who overcame incredible odds, and her quotes are a testament to her strength and resilience. Here are some of our favorite Helen Keller quotes to get you motivated.
Helen Keller was born in June of 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was the first child of Arthur Keller and Kate Adams Keller. Helen was a happy and healthy baby, but at the age of 19 months she contracted an illness that left her blind and deaf. Her family was devastated, but Helen was not. She was a determined little girl, and she was not going to let her disability stop her from living a full and happy life.
Helen’s family did everything they could to help her learn and grow. They worked with her every day, teaching her how to communicate and how to live life as a blind and deaf person. And Helen worked hard too. She was a sponge for knowledge, and she wanted to learn everything she could. She read books Braille, learned to write, and even learned to swim.
In 1887, Helen’s family learned about a woman named Anne Sullivan who was teaching a blind and deaf girl named Alice Howland. Anne had been successful in teaching Alice how to communicate and live life like other people. Helen’s family contacted Anne, and after meeting with Helen, Anne agreed to take her on as a student.
Anne was a tough teacher, but she was also very patient and kind. She worked hard with Helen, teaching her how to communicate with the world. And slowly but surely, Helen began to learn. She started to understand what people were saying, and she began to be able to communicate with them.
Helen Keller went on to become a famous author, speaker, and activist. She dedicated her life to helping others, and she showed the world that people with disabilities can do anything they set their minds to.
76 Helen Keller Quotes
- “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
2. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
3. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
4 “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going”
5. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
6. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement ”
7. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
8. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
9. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
10. “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
Famous Helen Keller Quotes
11. “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
12. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
13. “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.”
14. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”
15. “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.”
16. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
17. “So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”
18. “College isn’t the place to go for ideas.”
19. “Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
Famous Helen Keller quotes About Life
20. “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.”
21. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
22. “Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.”
23. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content”
24. “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.”
25. “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
26. “People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
27. “I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ”
28. “One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.”
29. “Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.”
Helen Keller Quotes On Success
30. “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
31. “Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
32. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”
33. “I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”
35. “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
36. . “What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”
37. “Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
38. “When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
39. “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.”
40. “We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”
Thought-Provoking Helen Keller Quotes
41. “To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”
42. “People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
43. “Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
44. “There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others’ ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.”
45. “Under softest touch hides treacherous claws.”
46. “I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”
47. “Only love can break down the walls that stand between us and our happiness.”
48. “Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.”
49. “My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.”
50. “True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose”
Inspirational Helen Keller Quotes
51. “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.”
52. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It’s what the sunflowers do.”
53. “There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.”
54. “The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.”
55. “Your success and happiness lie in you.”
56. “Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”
57. “True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart”
58. “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
59. “If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.”
60. “I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”
Helen Keller Quotes to Live By
61. “There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”
62. “Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.”
63. “A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
64. “As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
65. “Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things… 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.”
66. “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.”
67. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
68. “Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
69. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.”
More Helen Keller Quotes about Life
70. “Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
71. “Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
72. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.”
73. “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.”
74. “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.”
75. “Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.”
76. “The highest result of education is tolerance”