Helen Keller Quotes

Helen Keller (June 27, 1880- June 1, 1968) was known for her achievements all over the world by overcoming the fact that she was deaf and blind. She was also the first person to graduate from the deafblind college. Helen Keller was a highly regarded American author and she also played a major role as an activist and lecturer. She has been a complete inspiration for millions of people all over. Here’s a look at some famous quotes by Helen Keller that reflect her high thinking capabilities.

Helen Keller Quotes:

• 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.
• College isn't the place to go for ideas.
• Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.
• Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
• Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
• People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
• What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
• What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
• Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
• 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.
• Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
• Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
• Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
• Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
• Knowledge is love and light and vision.
• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.