Helen Keller
American author and activist, 1880-1968
47 quotes.
Quotes by Helen Keller
- A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
- Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
- 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.
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
- Even if you have a problem, you don’t need to be one.
- Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
- I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
- I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
- I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
- I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
- Ideas without action are useless.
- It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
- Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
- Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- My optimism does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
- Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
- No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
- One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
- People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- 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.
- Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
- So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others’ ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.
- So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike.
- The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
- The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
- The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field, I cannot reap a kernel of the good.
- There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
- There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
- There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.
- We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.