Top 50 Helen Keller Quotes for Overcoming Adversity

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

— Helen Keller

“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.”

— Helen Keller

“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.”

— Helen Keller

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

— Helen Keller

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

— Helen Keller

“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

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

— Helen Keller

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

“The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”

— Helen Keller

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

— Helen Keller

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

— Helen Keller

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”

— Helen Keller

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence.”

— Helen Keller

“God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His work.”

— 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

“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

“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 would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

— Helen Keller

“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

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

— Helen Keller

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

— Helen Keller

“I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.”

— Helen Keller

“True education combines intellect, curiosity, kindness, and understanding.”

— Helen Keller

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.”

— Helen Keller

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

— Helen Keller

“What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.”

— Helen Keller

“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

“The only thing worse than being blind is seeing but having no vision.”

— Helen Keller

“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”

— Helen Keller

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

— Helen Keller

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”

— Helen Keller

“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the evil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the evil would disappear itself.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

“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

“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”

— Helen Keller

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.”

— Helen Keller

“Happiness is not achieved through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

— Helen Keller

“Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.”

— Helen Keller

“Defeat is simply the addition of time to a process.”

— Helen Keller

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”

— Helen Keller

“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”

— Helen Keller

“Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first.”

— Helen Keller

“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”

— Helen Keller

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”

— Helen Keller

“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

— Helen Keller

“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”

— Helen Keller

“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”

— Helen Keller