Top 400 Helen Keller Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.”

— Helen Keller

202. “I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!”

— Helen Keller

203. “The things you do today that you don’t have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.”

— Helen Keller

204. “Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.”

— Helen Keller

205. “Smell is a fallen angel.”

— Helen Keller

206. “The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.”

— Helen Keller

207. “Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”

— Helen Keller

208. “What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”

— Helen Keller

209. “God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.”

— Helen Keller

210. “What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.”

— Helen Keller

211. “Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”

— Helen Keller

212. “Be happy. Talk happiness.”

— Helen Keller

213. “What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.”

— Helen Keller

214. “Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

— Helen Keller

215. “Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.”

— Helen Keller

216. “As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

— Helen Keller

217. “Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.”

— Helen Keller

218. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence...”

— Helen Keller

219. “If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.”

— Helen Keller

220. “What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.”

— Helen Keller

221. “The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”

— Helen Keller

222. “Things must be felt with the heart.”

— Helen Keller

223. “A man must understand evil and be acquainted with sorrow before he can write himself an optimist and expect others to believe that he has reason for the faith that is in him.”

— Helen Keller

224. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.”

— Helen Keller

225. “We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!”

— Helen Keller

226. “The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.”

— Helen Keller

227. “When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.”

— Helen Keller

228. “That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.”

— Helen Keller

229. “With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.”

— Helen Keller

230. “When one doors closes, another door opens.”

— Helen Keller

231. “Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.”

— Helen Keller

232. “Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one’s fellow men.”

— Helen Keller

233. “The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.”

— Helen Keller

234. “Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.”

— Helen Keller

235. “The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.”

— Helen Keller

236. “A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea.”

— Helen Keller

237. “Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”

— Helen Keller

238. “While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.”

— Helen Keller

239. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road.”

— Helen Keller

240. “When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?”

— Helen Keller

241. “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.”

— Helen Keller

242. “The silent worker is imagination which decrees reality out of chaos.”

— Helen Keller

243. “Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.”

— Helen Keller

244. “It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”

— Helen Keller

245. “A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.”

— Helen Keller

246. “Death is no more than passing from one room into another.”

— Helen Keller

247. “No nation is wise enough to rule another.”

— Helen Keller

248. “College isn’t the place to go for ideas.”

— Helen Keller

249. “The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

— Helen Keller

250. “Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, “There is joy in self-forgetfulness.”

— Helen Keller