Light Quotes

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt

What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor E. Frankl

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen

Light is the task where many share the toil.
Homer

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
Charles Barkley

Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.
Alexander Pope

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Ronald Reagan

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman

I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Denis Waitley

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
John Milton

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

Light tomorrow with today!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
Louis D. Brandeis

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
Horace

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
Alfred Stieglitz

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.
Janice Dickinson

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Paulo Coelho

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Margaret Fuller

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
Albert Pike

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
John Ruskin

Shadow owes its birth to light.
John Gay

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
Robert Baden-Powell

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Stefan Zweig

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions… Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Allama Iqbal

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
Felix Adler

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
William Makepeace Thackeray

We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher Columbus

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller

Live in rooms full of light.
Cornelius Celsus

Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller

I think we all have light and dark inside us.
Sean Penn

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

When you possess light within, you see it externally.
Anaïs Nin

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.
R. Turnbull

A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home.
Unknown

There are two kinds of light–the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber

Love is not consolation.  It is light.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
Peace Pilgrim

For I light my candle from their torches.
Robert Burton