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

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

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.” Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” Helen Keller

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” 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

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

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

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

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” 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

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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” 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.” Helen Keller

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

It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” —Theodore Roosevelt