helen keller quotes
Helen Keller Quotes
Helen Keller, 1880-1968, was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. This article lists some quotes from her.
- 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.
- College isn't the place to go for ideas.
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.
- Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
- Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
- People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
- What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
- 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.
- Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
- Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
- Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
- Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see