Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller
“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.”
topics: Perseverance
“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
topics: Perseverance
“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”
topics: Reasoning
“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
topics: Reasoning
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”
topics: Reasoning
“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”
“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
topics: Service
“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.”
“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.”
topics: Success
“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.”
“Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.”
“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”
“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.”
“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.”
topics: The Bible
“Just as all things upon earth represent and image forth all the realities of another world, so the Bible is one mighty representative of the whole spiritual life of humanity.”
topics: The Bible
“It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.”
topics: Youth
“My teacher is so near to me that I scarcely think of myself apart from her.”
“Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth, Share in the tree-top's joyance, and conceive Of sunshine and wide air and winged things, By sympathy of nature, so do I gave evidence of things unseen.”
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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.