Quotes from Helen Keller

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

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

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

True happiness comes from within, not from external circumstances.

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

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

We can do anything we want, as long as we stick to it long enough.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.

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

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.

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

The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of the overcoming of it.

The only way to predict the future is to create it.

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved, we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.

Quotes from Helen Keller part 2

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

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

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

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.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

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.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without purpose.

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.

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.

We learn more by listening than by talking.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

I cannot but remember when I was young, and truth and beauty were the same.

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose.

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

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

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.

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.