Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, was made famous by Keller’s autobiography, The Story of My Life, and its adaptations for film and stage, The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum and sponsors an annual “Helen Keller Day”. Her June 27th birthday is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in Pennsylvania and, in the centenary year of her birth, was recognized by a presidential proclamation from US President Jimmy Carter.
A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women’s suffrage, labor rights, socialism, antimilitarism, and other similar causes. She was inducted into the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame in 1971 and was one of twelve inaugural inductees to the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame on June 8, 2015.
Helen Keller Motivational Quotes
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
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
Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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.
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Helen Keller Inspirational Quotes
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
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Helen Keller Famous Quotes
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning 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 wise in this world.
Helen Keller
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller Greatest Quotes
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Helen Keller
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
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
The highest result of education is tolerance.
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
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
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Helen Keller Life Quotes
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen Keller