Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller
“Action is what separates a belief from an opinion. Beliefs are imprinted through actions.”
“I BELIEVE IN THE 50-PERCENT THEORY. Half the time things are better than normal; the other half, they are worse. I believe life is a pendulum swing.”
“You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.”
“So, my credo consists of the pursuit and the act. One without the other is self-indulgence.”
topics: pursuit
“IF I HAVE ONE OPERATING PHILOSOPHY ABOUT LIFE, it is this: “Be cool to the pizza delivery dude; it’s good luck.” Four principles guide the pizza dude philosophy.”
“In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn’t been good versus evil. It’s hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing. In going”
“It is an unspeakable boon to me to be able to speak in winged words that need no interpretation.”
“How easy it is to fly on paper wings!”
“Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.”
“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”
topics: Happiness
“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”
topics: Happiness
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
topics: Happiness
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”
topics: Ignorance
“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”
topics: Inspiration
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
topics: Inspiration
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Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become known worldwide through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.
A prolific author, Keller was well traveled and was outspoken in her opposition to war. She campaigned for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and socialism, as well as many other progressive causes.
Keller devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Helen Keller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest two civilian honors.