Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Helen Keller Quotes
ClarityEmotionMindPerspectiveVision As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
CourageFearRiskSafety Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
AcceptanceBalanceIntellectual GrowthPerseveranceUnderstanding Diversity Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
DirectionFulfillmentGuidancePotentialVision The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
AcceptanceMindfulnessPurposeSelf-DiscoveryWisdom What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
AmbitionCharacterPerseveranceStrengthSuccess 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.
ConnectionHopeLifeTransformation Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
GrowthJoyOvercoming Adversity 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.
HopePersonal BestPositive ImpactTransformation When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
OvercomingSelf-PityWisdom Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
AdventureCourageFalse SecurityRisk 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.
ContributionEffortPerspectiveValue My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
FutureProgressYouth It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
HappinessResilienceSuccess Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
ImaginationMemorySensory ExperienceTimeTravel Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
FriendshipLifeLoveMemoryPositivity So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
GrowthPerseveranceResilienceStruggleTriumph Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
CompassionLovePositive ActionPrioritization 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.
BraveryGrowth Through AdversityPatienceSuffering We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Understanding I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
BeautyFeelingHeartIntangible The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
ApathyEvilHumanity We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
CommitmentHappinessPurpose True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
AchievementDeterminationOvercoming DoubtPossibility While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
CommitmentDeterminationPerseveranceSuccess We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
EssenceGratitudeIdentityMemoryPermanence What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.