Helen Keller Quotes

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Helen Keller

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

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

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. Light Give me light was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.

Helen Keller

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Helen Keller

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of earning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Helen Keller

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

Helen Keller

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

Helen Keller

We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

Helen Keller

The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.

Helen Keller

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

Helen Keller

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller

The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way.

Helen Keller

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not a vowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Helen Keller

Ideas without action are useless.

Helen Keller

The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.

Helen Keller

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Helen Keller

There's only one story, the story of your life.

Helen Keller