746 Quotes by Helen Keller

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them? but do not let them master you.Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable

One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates....

If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand, if we believe that the earth is ours, and that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields because the Artist in our souls glorifies creation. Surely, it gives dignity to life to believe that we are born into this world for noble ends, and that we have a higher destiny than can be accomplished within the narrow limits of this physical life.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.