Lighthouse Quotes
74 quotes by 55 authors
-
A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They…
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
-
To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a…
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
-
Open your eyes and look around carefully at the moments when you think you have failed, because the lighthouse of the success mysteriously appears amongst…
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
-
Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
-
If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
-
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
— Charles Dickens
-
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
— Immanuel Kant
-
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to…
— Dwight L. Moody
-
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
— Anne Lamott
-
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
— Benjamin Franklin
-
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
-
With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she…
— Virginia Woolf
-
Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. The lighthouse of the Lord beckons…
— Thomas S. Monson
-
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so…
— Alfred de Musset
-
It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and…
— Susane Colasanti
-
She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking…
— Virginia Woolf
-
The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the…
— Virginia Woolf
-
A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.
— Dwight L. Moody
-
Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding…
— Thomas S. Monson
-
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.
— Anthony Rapp
Who Wrote These Lighthouse Quotes
55 authors contributed a total of 74 Lighthouse Quotes, led by these top contributors: