48 Helen Keller Quotes to Inspire Your Greatest Potential

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"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

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

- 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

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

- 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

"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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"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

"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."

- 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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

- 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

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but my chief duty is to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

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

- 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

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."

- Helen Keller

"The highest result of education is tolerance"

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."

- 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