Helen Keller Quotes (404+)

Enjoy the best Helen Keller Quotes. Quotations by Helen Keller (Author, Activist)
Jan 01, 1880 - Jan 01, 1968

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

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.

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

Literature is my Utopia.

True friends never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

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

The important thing is not what one is born with, but what they do with the gift of life.

About the Author

Helen Keller (1880–1968) was an American author and activist who, despite being blind and deaf from infancy, became a world-renowned symbol of perseverance and human potential.