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Helen Keller Quotes - Page 16

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God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

God, Men, Dominion

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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.

Family, Philosophy, Optimism

Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

Past, Years, Fancy

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.7, Om Books International

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

Gratitude, Disappointment, Doors

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

Ignorance, Light, Greed

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

Nature, Sides, Priceless

During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

Flower, Green Fields, Sky

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.9, Om Books International

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

Wonderful Friends, Interesting, Has Beens

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.

Believe, Thinking, People

Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.

Thinking, Succeed, Neighbor

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.108, American Foundation for the Blind

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

Sight, People, Vision

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

Brain, Mind, Use

Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.56, 谷月社

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

Army, Want, Profit

Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.

Hands, People, Joy

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

Age, Spirit, Widowers

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

Heart, Sometimes, Pleasure

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

Men, Twenties, World

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.69, American Foundation for the Blind

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

Good Friend, Walks

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

Heart, Men, Self

Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!

Giving, Damn, Radical

Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

Inspirational, Motivational, Imagination

Helen Keller (2013). “The World I Live In”, p.42, The Floating Press

We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.

Country, Real, Destiny

I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

Beach, Ocean, Air

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.32, Om Books International

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

Joy, Use, Tire

Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.175, Book Tree

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

Life, Rejoice, Disturbing

"To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller".

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