83 Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller to Overcome Challenges

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope."

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."

- Helen Keller

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face."

- 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

"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

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

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement"

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

"The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles."

- Helen Keller

"Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"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

"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

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

- 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

"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

"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

"Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again."

- Helen Keller

"I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision."

- Helen Keller

"Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow."

- Helen Keller

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small task as though they were great and noble"

- Helen Keller

"Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities."

- Helen Keller

"The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things."

- Helen Keller

"The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better."

- Hellen Keller

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

- 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

"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."

- 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

"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."

- 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

"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 most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision."

- 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

"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

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"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 do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it."

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me."

- Helen Keller

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."

- 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 highest result of education is tolerance"

- Helen Keller

"Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within"

- Helen Keller

"The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place."

- Helen Keller

"Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances."

- Helen Keller

"Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly."

- Helen Keller

"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark."

- 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

"You cannot touch the cloud, you know, but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play."

- 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

"No one has the right to consume happiness without producing it."

- Helen Keller

"The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them."

- 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

"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it."

- Helen Keller

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"Literature is my Utopia"

- Helen Keller