82 Helen Keller Quotes and Sayings
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Helen Keller Quotes
- “A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller
- “We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.” – Helen Keller
- “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.” – Helen Keller
- “A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.” – Helen Keller
- “I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.” – Helen Keller
- “I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.” – Helen Keller
- “Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.” – Helen Keller
- “Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.” – Helen Keller
- “While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.” – Helen Keller
- “The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.” – Helen Keller
Quotes by Helen Keller
- “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
- “Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.” – Helen Keller
- “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
- “Literature is my Utopia.” – Helen Keller
- “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.” – Helen Keller
- “True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.” – Helen Keller
- “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
- “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.” – Helen Keller
- “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.” – Helen Keller
- “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.” – Helen Keller
Inspiring Helen Keller Quotes
- “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” – Helen Keller
- “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.” – Helen Keller
- “So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.” – Helen Keller
- “Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. . . . It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.” – Helen Keller
- “What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.” – Helen Keller
- “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” – Helen Keller
- “To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.” – Helen Keller
- “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.” – Helen Keller
- “Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.” – Helen Keller
- “Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.” – Helen Keller
Motivational 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.” – Helen Keller
- “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
- “So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.” – Helen Keller
- “I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!” – Helen Keller
- “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” – Helen Keller
- “A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” – Helen Keller
- “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.” – Helen Keller
- “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.” – Helen Keller
- “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.” – Helen Keller
- “The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.” – Helen Keller
Helen Keller Inspiring Short Quotes
- “The highest result of education is tolerance.” – Helen Keller
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
- “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet” – Helen Keller
- “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Helen Keller
- “When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” – Helen Keller
- “Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.” – Helen Keller
- “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.” – Helen Keller
- “Knowledge is love and light and vision.” – Helen Keller
- “Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.” – Helen Keller
- “One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.” – Helen Keller
Helen Keller Quotes
- “College isn’t the place to go for ideas.” – Helen Keller
- “Your success and happiness lie in you.” – Helen Keller
- “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” – Helen Keller
- “My friends have made the story of my life.” – Helen Keller
- “Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.” – Helen Keller
- “We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller
- “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.” – Helen Keller
- “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision” – Helen Keller
- “I think the degree of a nation’s civilization may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.” – Helen Keller
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
Famous Helen Keller Quotes
- “People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.” – Helen Keller
- “I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.” – Helen Keller
- “To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.” – Helen Keller
- “More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.” – Helen Keller
- “Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.” – Helen Keller
- “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.” – Helen Keller
- “What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.” – Helen Keller
- “The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller
- “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.” – Helen Keller
- “The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.” – Helen Keller
Best Helen Keller Quotes
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “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.” – Helen Keller
- “The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” – Helen Keller
- “As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.” – Helen Keller
- “I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.” – Helen Keller
- “I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.” – Helen Keller
- “I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings” – Helen Keller
- “No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.” – Helen Keller
- “We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.” – Helen Keller
- “To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.” – Helen Keller
- “The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.” – Helen Keller
- “The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.” – Helen Keller
