Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Helen Keller Quotes
BeautyHeartFeelingIntangible The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
CourageFearRiskSafety Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
ContentmentWonderAcceptancePerspective Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
AcceptanceResilienceContentmentPeace 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.
YouthProgressFuture 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.
OptimismFaithAchievementHopeConfidence Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
HappinessPurposeCommitment True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
TransformationHopeConnectionLife 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.
AchievementPossibilityDeterminationOvercoming Doubt While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
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.
LoveCompassionPositive 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.
ApathyHumanityScienceEvil Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Self-PityWisdomOvercoming Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
CharacterPerseveranceStrengthAmbitionSuccess 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.
DutyExcellencePerspectiveDiligence 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.
ComparisonPerspectiveGratitudePrivilege 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.
LiteratureUtopiaBelongingConnection Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
OptimismDiscoveryExplorationProgress No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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.
Overcoming AdversityGrowthJoy 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.
PermanenceMemoryIdentityGratitudeEssence What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
ValueContributionEffortPerspective My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
FriendshipUnityTrustSupportSolidarity Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Personal BestPositive ImpactHopeTransformation When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
ConsequenceIronySkill vs HubrisBalanceVulnerability As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
VisionPotentialDirectionGuidanceFulfillment The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
StrugglePerseveranceTriumphGrowthResilience Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Growth Through AdversitySufferingBraveryPatience We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
ConfidenceDignityCourageSelf-Respect Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Limited PerspectiveSelf-CentralityWisdomInner vs Outer ExplorationExistential Awareness Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
EmotionMindClarityVisionPerspective As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
EqualityHuman RightsIntrinsic Needs No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
EqualityHierarchySocial MobilityResilienceInterconnectedness There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
PerseveranceFaithInspirationPeaceAspiration It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
HappinessPurposeFulfillment 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.
AcceptanceIntellectual GrowthBalancePerseveranceUnderstanding 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.
PerseveranceDeterminationCommitmentSuccess We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
TransitionVisionContinuityBeyond 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.
Self-DiscoveryMindfulnessWisdomAcceptancePurpose What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
VisionPurposePerspective The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
FaithBibleSpiritual GrowthBalance 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.
InequalityEmpathySocial Class It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.