Top 100 Quotes About Helen Keller
#1. I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller - and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#2. Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder.
Bruce Lansky
#3. Famous INFPs include Isabel Myers (creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), St. John the disciple, Carl Rogers, Princess Diana, George Orwell, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Rogers, A.A. Milne, Helen Keller, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Julia Roberts, and William Shakespeare.
Molly Owens
#4. If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense? What year did Jesus think it was?
George Carlin
#5. Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one's intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak.
Karl Popper
#6. Upon learning that Hall was the man who had invented the typewriter she used so often, the girl put her arms around his neck and gave him a huge hug and kiss. Forever afterward, whenever Hall told this story of how he met Helen Keller, tears would fill his eyes.
Erik Larson
#7. What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. Helen Keller
Bruce Van Horn
#8. A woman named Helen Keller fought her way through long, silent darkness.
Though she could not see or hear;
she taught us to look at and listen to each other.
Never waiting for life to get easier,
she gave others courage to face their challenges.
Barack Obama
#9. The Labor Department's Hall of Honor recognizes men and women - like Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller and the Workers of the Memphis Sanitation Strike - who have made invaluable contributions to the welfare of American workers.
Thomas Perez
#10. Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because
she couldn't remember the lines.
Joan Rivers
#11. I waved to him, and he waved back. I tried not to think about how Chad couldn't see me doing that now. Helen Keller said that when you lose one sense, another one grows stronger. But by the time Chad learned how to hear me waving, it would be too late.
Jennifer Gooch Hummer
#12. 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. HELEN KELLER
Dave Ramsey
#13. Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#14. I wear loud clothes. They aren't bright colors, but I do have speakers sewn into my shirts. What can I say, I've grown out of dressing like Helen Keller.
Jarod Kintz
#15. Jesus, Neal, watching you eat with a spork is like seeing Helen Keller at a ladies' afternoon tea.
Douglas Coupland
#16. No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller ... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.
Theodore Zeldin
#17. I hope you are looking forward to the tsunami of industrial effluent which is coming your way in the first quarter of the new year. You will not be able to avoid it, unless you are Helen Keller. One way or another, Wills and Kate are going to get you.
Rod Liddle
#18. Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
#19. Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
Napoleon Hill
#20. Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?
Charles F. Stanley
#21. No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.
Richard Masur
#22. And wasn't that a great moment in baseball history," Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. "Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder catching.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#23. It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it's pretty obvious when you're in a kitchen and when you're not.
A.M. Homes
#24. There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless and purposeless life. Helen Keller
Robin S. Sharma
#25. It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.
Helen Keller
#26. Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
Helen Keller
#27. The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.
Helen Keller
#29. Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
Helen Keller
#30. The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
Helen Keller
#31. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Helen Keller
#32. I distrust the rash optimism in this country that cries, "Hurrah, we're all right! This is the greatest nation on earth," when there are grievances that call loudly for redress.
Helen Keller
#33. Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
Helen Keller
#34. The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Helen Keller
#35. To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
Helen Keller
#36. The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.
Helen Keller
#37. Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
Helen Keller
#38. Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach
Helen Keller
#39. Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
Helen Keller
#40. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
Helen Keller
#41. It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me ... if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me ...
Helen Keller
#42. Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
Helen Keller
#43. The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
Helen Keller
#44. So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.
Helen Keller
#45. The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Helen Keller
#47. I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
Helen Keller
#48. People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote))
Helen Keller
#49. I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
Helen Keller
#50. Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
#51. My friends have made the story of my life.
Helen Keller
#53. When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
Helen Keller
#54. It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.
Helen Keller
#55. When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.
Helen Keller
#56. Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
Helen Keller
#57. Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
Helen Keller
#58. I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.
Helen Keller
#59. It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
Helen Keller
#60. Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.
Helen Keller
#62. What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
#63. I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
Helen Keller
#64. My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
Helen Keller
#65. Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
Helen Keller
#66. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
Helen Keller
#67. There's only one story, the story of your life.
Helen Keller
#68. Literature is my Utopia ... No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends
Helen Keller
#69. Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.
Helen Keller
#70. Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.
Helen Keller
#71. Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
Helen Keller
#72. He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
Helen Keller
#73. To be banished from Rome is but to live outside of Rome.
Helen Keller
#74. I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.
Helen Keller
#75. There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
Helen Keller
#76. 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
#77. The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
Helen Keller
#78. Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
Helen Keller
#79. All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us
Helen Keller
#80. The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
Helen Keller
#81. The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.
Helen Keller
#84. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Helen Keller
#85. No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
Helen Keller
#86. Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Helen Keller
#87. One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
Helen Keller
#88. What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Helen Keller
#89. I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
Helen Keller
#90. Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
Helen Keller
#91. No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
Helen Keller
#95. The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.
Helen Keller
#96. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller
#97. Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
Helen Keller
#98. Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.
Helen Keller
#99. Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows
Helen Keller
#100. Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller
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