Top 12 Famous Helen Keller Quotes (Best)
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

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
— 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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
— Helen Keller

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
— 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 the something that I can do.
— Helen Keller

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
— Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
— Helen Keller

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

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

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.
— Helen Keller

27 Helen Keller Quotes about living with a Happy Life
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

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
— 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

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.
— Helen Keller

What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.
— Helen Keller

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

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
— Helen Keller

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
— Helen Keller

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
— Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
— Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
— Helen Keller

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
— Helen Keller

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

It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
— Helen Keller

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first.
— Helen Keller

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
— Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance.
— Helen Keller

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope.
— Helen Keller

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

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
— Helen Keller

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
— Helen Keller

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
— 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

All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
— Helen Keller

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

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
— Helen Keller

The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.
— Helen Keller

Motivational Helen Keller Quotes (Inspirational)
Meanwhile the desire to express myself grew. The few signs I used became less and less adequate, and my failures to make myself understood were invariably followed by outbursts of passion.
— Helen Keller
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
— Helen Keller
You cannot touch love but you can feel the sweetness it pours into everything.
— Helen Keller

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
— Helen Keller

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
— Helen Keller

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
— Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
— Helen Keller

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
— Helen Keller

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
— Helen Keller

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
— Helen Keller

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

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

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

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
— Helen Keller

It is said that success is happiness. I think goodwill and service to all men are the true kind of happiness.
— Helen Keller

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

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
— Helen Keller

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
— 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

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
— Helen Keller

True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness.
— Helen Keller

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
— Helen Keller

More Best Helen Keller Quotes (Vision, Love, Success)
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
— 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
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
— Helen Keller

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
— Helen Keller
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
— Helen Keller
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
— Helen Keller

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
— Helen Keller

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
— 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

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

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

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

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.
— Helen Keller
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
— 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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
— 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

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

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
— 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
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
— Helen Keller

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
— 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
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
— Helen Keller

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
— 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
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
— Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
— Helen Keller
