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Helen Keller Quotes about Life

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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.

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

I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Helen Keller
Inspirational, Life, Single
"The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.

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
Life, Learning, Thinking
Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1921). “The Story of My Life: with her letters (1887--1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan”, Doubleday, Page & Company

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
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Helen Keller
Life, Women, Grieving

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller
Inspirational, Life, Success

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

Helen Keller
Inspirational, Life, Peace

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
Life, Motivational, Success
Helen Keller's Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 8, 1896.

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

Helen Keller
Inspirational, Life, Moving On
"How to Help Someone Who is Depressed, or Suicidal : Practical Suggestions from a Survivor". Book by John Cook, 1993.

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
Inspirational, Life, Success

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

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

Helen Keller
Life, Women, Generosity
Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.36, American Foundation for the Blind

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
Inspirational, Life, Positive

I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

Helen Keller
Inspirational, Life, Investing

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

Helen Keller
Inspirational, Life, Leadership
Address to American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, Philadelphia, Pa., 8 July 1896

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

Helen Keller
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

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

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
Inspirational, Life, Happiness
Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

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

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Helen Keller
Love, Life, Future
Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Helen Keller
Life, Happy, Education
Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Helen Keller
Life, Kings, Diversity
Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.5, Courier Corporation

Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.

Helen Keller
Life, Prayer, Hate
Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.185, Book Tree

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