Quotes by Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

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 that has been opened for us.

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

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

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.

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

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

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

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

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