Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
Helen Keller · From her early essay Optimism; often quoted with "and confidence" added, which is not in the text.
Helen Keller · From her early essay Optimism; often quoted with "and confidence" added, which is not in the text.
More from Helen Keller
Helen Keller · A journal entry of December 10, 1936, written while she was mourning her teacher Anne Sullivan.
Helen Keller · Her answer on the vaudeville circuit in the early 1920s when an audience member asked whether she wanted her sight more than anything else in the world.
Helen Keller · Written late in life by a woman who was deaf and blind from the age of nineteen months.
More Motivational Quotes
Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching chapter 64 in James Legge's translation; a li is a Chinese mile, hence the familiar "journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step".
Abraham Lincoln · Advice to Isham Reavis, a young man who had asked to study law under him, in a letter of 5 November 1855.
Thomas Edison · Quote Investigator finds Edison quoted with this ratio from 1901 and with "two per cent inspiration" as early as 1898; the familiar spelled-out form appeared in Harper's Monthly in 1932.
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