Quote of the day

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Enjoy thecollection of inspirational words of wisdom in these Helen Keller quotes. Helen Keller was born in 1880 and died in 1968. She 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. Anne Sullivan opened Helen's world by patiently teaching the young child. Her story has been told in books and in film. Enjoy these famous words of wisdom in inspirational quotes by Helen Keller:

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

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

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

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

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.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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To error is human, to forgive divine.

ALEXANDER POPE

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“Rome was not built in one day.”

CERVANTES

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

Helen Keller

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“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”

WASHINGTON IRWING

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“Do your best, whether winning or losing it, if you choose to play.”

ROBERT BROWNING

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“Knowledge is power.”

FRANCIS BACON

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“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.”

SHELLY

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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

» The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

» Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

» Where there is love there is life.

» It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

» Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

» You must be the change you want to see in the world.

» An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

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Leadership ... the ability to see what no one else sees, to listen when others talk and the ability to be optimistic when others are pessimistic.
-- George W. Cummings
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
-- Richard Moss
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use in being a damn fool about it.
-- W.C. Fields
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-- Socrates
Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price.
-- Lane Frost
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.
-- Dan Dierdorf
It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotten -- but the hurt stays in the heart.
-- Ella Higginson
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
-- George Bernard Shaw
It is the man who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.
-- Source Unknown
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
-- Winston Churchill
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
-- Ovid
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
-- Alfred E. Smith
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
-- Marcus T. Cicero

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"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

-- Decouvertes

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

-- Muhammad Ali

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"

-- George Bernard Shaw

"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them."

-- Ralph Gerard