Quote

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

Helen Keller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Linguist
Orator
Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
Writer
Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
Every
Higher
Eager
Struggle
Climb
Stand
Climbs
Fall
Horizon
Stills
Gain
Still
Gains
Littles
Victory
Trudge
Little
Begin
Widening

More quotes by Helen Keller

Image
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
Image
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
Helen Keller
Image
Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.
Helen Keller
Image
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Helen Keller
Image
Fear: the best way out is through.
Helen Keller
Image
No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
Helen Keller
Image
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
Helen Keller
Image
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Helen Keller
Image
Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
Helen Keller
Image
World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.
Helen Keller
Image
The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.
Helen Keller
Image
One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
Helen Keller
Image
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
Image
The inferiority of women is man-made.
Helen Keller
Image
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
Image
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
Helen Keller
Image
The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
Helen Keller
Image
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
Image
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
Image
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller