Inspirational Quotations by Helen Keller

  • One can never consent to creep
    when one feels the impulse to soar.
    From Issue 46
  • The best and most beautiful things in the world
    cannot be seen or even touched.
    They must be felt with the heart.
    From Issue 47
  • Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
    From Issue 59
  • 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.
    From Issue 64
  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
    Only through the experience of trial and suffering
    Can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
    Ambition inspired, and success achieved.
    From Issue 86
  • Although the world is full of suffering,
    it is full also of the overcoming of it.
    From Issue 101
  • The most pathetic person in the world is
    someone who has sight but has no vision.
    From Issue 115
  • Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.
    From Issue 116
  • Happiness cannot come from without.
    It must come from within.
    Topics: Happiness, Contentment
    From Issue 127
  • 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.
    From Issue 139
  • Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch,
    but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
    From Issue 143
  • The chief duty I long to accomplish great and noble tasks,
    but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks
    as though they were great and noble.
    The world is moved along, not only by the
    mighty shoves of its heroes, but also
    by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
    From Issue 156
  • When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
    but often we look so long at the closed door
    we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
    From Issue 191
  • When we do the best that we can, we never know what
    miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
    From Issue 226
  • It would be a blessing if each person could be blind
    and deaf for a few days during his adult life.
    It makes him appreciate sight and the the joy of sound.
    From Issue 243
  • Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them;
    but do not let them master you.
    Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
    From Issue 251
  • Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be
    strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
    From Issue 269
  • Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing.
    From Issue 280
  • Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be
    strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
    From Issue 300

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