Helen Keller's Most Inspirational Quotes: A Collection to Uplift Your Spirit

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"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

"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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

"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

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

- 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

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

- 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

"I knew then that “w-a-t-e-r” meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!"

- Helen Keller

"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

- 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

"Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- 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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow."

- Helen Keller

"Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss [Anne] Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister’s hand."

- Helen Keller

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

- Helen Keller

"If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body."

- Helen Keller

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Literature is my Utopia."

- Helen Keller

"Nobody, who is not blind, as much as they may love their pet, can know what a dog’s love really means. Dogs have traveled all over the world with me. They have always been my companions. A dog has never failed me."

- Helen Keller