Helen Keller Quotes are more than just inspiring quotations. Her words of wisdom are carved in the every corner of my heart. I read them again and again to remind myself that anything is possible if you have faith and work hard enough. Helen's life is synonym to perseverance. Not only Helen Keller quotes, even her biography will make you energized when you feel to give up or quit while facing problems in life.
Helen Keller was a prominent personality of the 20th century. She was an American author, lecturer, political activist, humanitarian figure, advocate for the blind & deaf and co-founder of the ACLU ( American Civil Liberties Union). She earned a long list of honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964, election to the Women's Hall of Fame in 1965, and numerous honorary degrees from universities around the world.
About Helen Keller
Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1880; she was a confident and happy baby, precociously starting to talk at 6 months. Then, in February 1882, she lost her sight and hearing due to an unknown illness. As Keller wrote in her autobiography, The Story of My Life, "came the illness which closed my eyes and ears and plunged me into the unconsciousness of a new born." She was only 19 months old at that time. Her family doctor called it "brain fever".
Then, at the age to seven years, Keller met her miracle teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Keller would later mark the day they met as her "Soul's Birthday," and the most significant moment in her life. Anne Sullivan helped her make tremendous progress with her ability to communicate. She learned to use her hands to interpret and connect with the world. Keller graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904 as the first blind/deaf person to obtain a Bachelors Degree.
Helen Adams Keller became one of America's most inspirational figures of 20th Century. She lived her life with a fierce determination to not let her disabilities hold her back. She demonstrated perseverance through her lifelong struggle to perfect her oral and non-verbal communications skills , to her array of literary and academic achievements. Here are the top 31 Helen Keller Quotes to inspire you to never give up
Helen Keller Quotes
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." ~ Helen Keller
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~ Helen Keller
"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough." ~ Helen Keller
"What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me." ~ Helen Keller
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." ~ Helen Keller
"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse." ~ Helen Keller
"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
" Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." ~ Helen Keller
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." ~ Helen Keller
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." ~ Helen Keller
Inspiring Helen Keller Quotes
"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." ~ Helen Keller
"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."
"The best way out is always through." ~ Helen Keller
"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." ~ Helen Keller
"Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." ~ Helen Keller
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." ~ Helen Keller
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." ~ Helen Keller
"One can never content to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." ~ Helen Keller
"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." ~ Helen Keller
Top Helen Keller Quotes
"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done." ~ Helen Keller
"I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly." ~ Helen Keller
"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us." ~ Helen Keller
"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." ~ Helen Keller
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." ~ Helen Keller
"The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better." ~ Helen Keller
"The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction." ~ Helen Keller
"Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world." ~ Helen Keller
Famous Helen Keller Quotes
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." ~ Helen Keller
"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
"I think the degree of a nation's civilization may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women." ~ Helen Keller
"More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free." ~ Helen Keller
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