Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan: Such a great legacy of teaching and growth

Helen Keller became deaf and blind when she was just a baby of 19 months. As a child she was uncontrollable and her parents enlisted the help of Anne Sullivan.

Her teacher Anne Sullivan opened Helen's world by patiently teaching the young child. Her story has been told in books and in film.

Below are words of wisdom in the form of inspirational quotes and motivational quotes by Helen Keller:

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller

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

All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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

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

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller

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

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

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

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
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

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

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

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller

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