One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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Helen KellerAddress to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1896)
About Helen Keller
Deafblind author, lecturer and advocate for people with disabilities. (1880-1968)
More from Helen Keller
- Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.The Open Door (1957)
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Optimism (1903)
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched but just felt in the heart.Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (1891)
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Keller's Journal (1938)
- Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.Optimism (1903)
- Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.As quoted by Joseph P. Lash in Helen and Teacher (1980)
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- If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.Vince Lombardi
- Make each day your masterpiece.John Wooden
- If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.Lou Holtz
- Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.Lou Holtz
- There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.Bruce Lee
- I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.Tony Robbins
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