25 Helen Keller Quotes to overcome our limitations

When I thought of a title for this article, I couldn’t think of anything more than – limitations, fighting spirit and moving ahead without complaining. Maybe these terms create an image of Helen Keller that I have. I’m conscious that these terms are too inadequate to define a personality. Perhaps, we may take solace in the fact that there’s so much to inspire us from her words, works and a life of example.

Helen Keller quotes compilation

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Helen Keller Quotes

This is a collection of 25 Helen Keller quotes that inspired me the most. Good Reads has a collection of over 9 pages of her quotes. Brainy quotes also have a similar compilation – each one of them more desirable than the other. But I had to restrict myself to these 25. Please feel free to use these quotes as appropriate. If you do intend to use them, I’d be grateful for a link back to this site.

1. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
2. The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
3. Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
4. While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.
5. A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
6. Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
7. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It’s what the sunflowers do.
8. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
9. 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.
10. Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
11. 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
12. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light
13. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart
14. Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it
15. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much
16. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved
17. Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost
18. Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye
19. People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant
20. A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn
21. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
22. Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
23. 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
24. Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood
25. Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world

References:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7275.Helen_Keller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller