Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

Helen Keller

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

Helen Keller

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

Helen Keller

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

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Helen Keller

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

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

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

Helen Keller

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

Helen Keller

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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.

Helen Keller

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Cate Blanchett

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

Cate Blanchett

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

George Eliot

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

George Eliot

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Guy Finley

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

Guy Finley

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

Guy Finley

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

Gore Vidal

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

Gore Vidal

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.