72 Quotes By 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 on strength

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller on strength

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 on success

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 on success

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Helen Keller on teacher

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.
Helen Keller on time

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.
Helen Keller on travel

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller on war

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller on work

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 on new years

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 on happiness

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller on happiness