Helen Keller Quotes

In all my times of adversity I could always read something by Helen Keller and know that I could make it. She was a genuine inspiration to me since a child.


Helen Keller Quotes

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
--Helen Keller

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.
---Helen Keller

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
--Helen Keller

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
--Helen Keller

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
--Helen Keller

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.
--Helen Keller

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
--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

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
--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

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
--Helen Keller

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

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
---Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
--Helen Keller

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
--Helen Keller

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. ---Helen Keller

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller, 'Optimism,' 1903

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, My Religion, 1927

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
---Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)

Thank you so much, Spring Miracles, for sharing the exquisite thoughts of Helen Keller with all of us.


Helen Keller has been a very great inspiration in my life, just as she has touched millions.