Helen Keller Quotes

1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist
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“The best way out is always through.”
Problems
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
VerifiedThe Open Door (1957) This quotation is often contracted into: Security is mostly a superstition... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. or paraphrased: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. · evidenceRisk
“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”
Vision
“Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.”
Eyes
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Verified"Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy", Joseph P. Lash (1980) · evidenceTeams and Teamwork
“The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.”
Teams and Teamwork
“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”
Blindness
“Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.”
Success
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
Attitude
“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.”
Perseverance
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Desire
“God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.”
Security
“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others”
Life and Living
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
VerifiedOptimism (1903) · evidenceSuffering
“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”
Work
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
Peace
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.”
Senses
“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
Effort
“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”
Kings
“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
Selfishness
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
VerifiedLet Us Have Faith (1940) · evidenceDanger
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
Heart
“We 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.”
Apathy
“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.”
Things and Little Things
“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
Pessimism
“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.”
VerifiedThe Story of My Life (1903) · evidenceTolerance
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
Success
“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.”
VerifiedOptimism (1903) · evidenceWork