Top 53 Helen Keller Quotes

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Helen Keller is one of the most famous disabilities rights advocates. With that in mind, check out the top 53 Helen Keller quotes.

#53 – 50. Helen Keller Quotes

53. I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!

52. Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

51. Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.

50. I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

#49 – 40. Helen Keller Quotes

49. Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

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

47. 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.

46. If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

45. What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.

44. 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.

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

42. True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

41. Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

40. We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

#39 – 30. Helen Keller Quotes

39. We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

38. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

37. My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

36. The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

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

34. A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

33. Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

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

31. 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.

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

#29 – 20. Helen Keller Quotes

29. The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

28. When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us.

27. We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state, We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity, We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

26. The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

25. While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.

24. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

23. It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

22. Relationships are like Rome — difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt… that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.

21. We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

20. There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

#19 – 10. Helen Keller Quotes

19. Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.

18. 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.

17. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

16. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

15. 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.

14. No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

13. 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.

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

11. As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

10. The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

#9 – 1. Helen Keller Quotes

9. Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

8. People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

7. Knowledge is love and light and vision.

6. I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

5. While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

4. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

3. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

2. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light

1. All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

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