Helen Keller Quotes (404+)

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land.

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

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

The greatest tragedy in life is not being deaf or blind, but being deafblind.

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

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.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

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.

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

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

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.

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.