Light Quotes

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.

Jesse Lai

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

Taylor Benson

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Charles Dickens

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Kenko Yoshida

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

John Owen

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.

Newt Gingrich

Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porte

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

William Shakespeare

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Maurice Chevalie

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Helen Steiner Rice

We burn daylight.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4

Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

George Carlin

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1

If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....

Carl Zwanzig

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

E. H. Chapin

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

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

Mother Theresa

By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.

Sir Issac Newton, On how he made discoveries

Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Prove

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

Vicomte de Chateaubriand