Helen Keller Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Struggle, Moving, Twilight

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.106, Courier Corporation

• He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

  Helen Keller

  Progress, Path, Done

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.77, American Foundation for the Blind

• Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Happy, Education

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

• What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Civilization, Progress

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.44, American Foundation for the Blind

• health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

  Helen Keller

  Health, Land, Progress

• Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.

  Helen Keller

  Ambition, Pride, Wind Blowing

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