Quotes By Helen Keller

Date of Birth: June 27, 1880     Date of Death: June 1, 1968

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.  ~ Helen Keller


Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.  ~ Helen Keller


Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.  ~ Helen Keller


To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.  ~ Helen Keller


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


The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.  ~ Helen Keller


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.  ~ Helen Keller


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


One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.  ~ 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


We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.  ~ Helen Keller


I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.  ~ 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


For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.  ~ Helen Keller


Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.  ~ 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


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


Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.  ~ Helen Keller


I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everthing, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do.  ~ 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


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


I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.  ~ Helen Keller


People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.  ~ 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


Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.  ~ Helen Keller


So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.  ~ 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


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


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


The highest result of education is tolerance.  ~ Helen Keller


I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.  ~ 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


I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.  ~ Helen Keller


The highest result of education is tolerance.  ~ Helen Keller


So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.  ~ Helen Keller