Helen Keller Quotes

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

American author

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

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

American author

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

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
Helen Keller

American author

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

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.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

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

American author

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller

American author

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