Top 400 Helen Keller Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

2. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

— Helen Keller

3. “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”

— Helen Keller

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4. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

— Helen Keller

5. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

— Helen Keller

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6. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

8. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

— Helen Keller

9. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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11. “The highest result of education is tolerance.”

— Helen Keller

12. “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

— Helen Keller

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13. “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.”

— Helen Keller

14. “Ideas without action are useless.”

— Helen Keller

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15. “True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.”

— Helen Keller

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16. “Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

— Helen Keller

17. “Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

18. “Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

22. “The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.”

— Helen Keller

23. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.”

— Helen Keller

24. “The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

— Helen Keller

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25. “Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

27. “There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.”

— Helen Keller

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28. “What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

— Helen Keller

29. “Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.”

— Helen Keller

30. “A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”

— Helen Keller

31. “Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

— Helen Keller

32. “I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.”

— Helen Keller

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33. “Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”

— Helen Keller

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34. “I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.”

— Helen Keller

35. “The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream.”

— Helen Keller

36. “Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.”

— Helen Keller

37. “You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.”

— Helen Keller

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38. “My friends have made the story of my life.”

— Helen Keller

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39. “We should respect all people.”

— Helen Keller

40. “All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”

— Helen Keller

41. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.”

— Helen Keller

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42. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

— Helen Keller

43. “Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.”

— Helen Keller

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44. “Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.”

— Helen Keller

45. “Your success and happiness lie in you.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

47. “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.”

— Helen Keller

48. “A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.”

— Helen Keller

49. “Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.”

— Helen Keller

50. “Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.”

— Helen Keller