Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, was made famous by Keller’s autobiography, The Story of My Life, and its adaptations for film and stage, The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum and sponsors an annual “Helen Keller Day”. Her June 27th birthday is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in Pennsylvania and, in the centenary year of her birth, was recognized by a presidential proclamation from US President Jimmy Carter. May these Helen Keller Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller
2. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller
3. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” Helen Keller
4. “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller
5. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” Helen Keller
6. “It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.” Helen Keller
7. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” Helen Keller
8. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” Helen Keller
9. “I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” Helen Keller
10. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller
11. “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” Helen Keller
12. “Knowledge is love and light and vision.” Helen Keller
13. “Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.” Helen Keller
14. “I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.” Helen Keller
15. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” Helen Keller
16. “Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” Helen Keller
17. “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
18. “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
19. “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
20. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” Helen Keller
21. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” Helen Keller
22. “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
23. “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
24. “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
25. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” Helen Keller
26. “Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.” Helen Keller
27. “We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” Helen Keller
28. “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
29. “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” Helen Keller
30. “While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.” Helen Keller
31. “It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.” Helen Keller
32. “I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.” Helen Keller
33. “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
34. “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
35. “All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.” Helen Keller
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