Helen Keller Quotes to Inspire You

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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

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.

Blind people are just like seeing people in the dark. The loss of sight does not impair the qualities of mind and heart.

The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

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

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

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

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

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.

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

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

The only fighting that saves is the one that helps the world toward liberty, justice & an abundant life for all.