Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
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Helen KellerOptimism (1903)
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)
- Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.As quoted by Joseph P. Lash in Helen and Teacher (1980)
- One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1896)
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- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The ancestor of every action is a thought.Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances... Strong men believe in cause and effect.Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.Voltaire
- Man is free at the instant he wants to be.Voltaire
- Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.Friedrich Nietzsche
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