“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
Helen Keller (verified)
Optimism (Primary source)
Optimism presents Keller’s philosophy that despite her deafness and blindness, true happiness comes from inner faith rather than material circumstances. She argues optimism enables achievement and is essential for human progress and personal fulfillment.
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
— Helen Keller (verified)“The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. It be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, them it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.”
— Helen Keller (verified)“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller (verified)“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
— Helen Keller (verified)“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“No gains without pains.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)