170 Bright Quotes

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Famous Bright Quotes

A candle is at its brightest in the dark. — Matshona Dhliwayo

City lights shine bright on my complexion, Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection. Life is a green light, one star, no script, Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit. — Action Bronson

Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak. — Anonymous

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

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. — Euripides

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. - Don Herold

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. — Don Herold

Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Better to illuminate than merely to shine. — Thomas Aquinas

Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness. — Jimmie Davis

When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light. - Abraham Isaac Kook

When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light. — Abraham Isaac Kook

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing. — Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

Sunlight is painting. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights. — Alice Meynell

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. - J. R. R. Tolkien

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. — J. R. R. Tolkien

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see. — Stevie Wonder

Short Bright Quotes

  • The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long. — Lao Tzu
  • The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. — George R. R. Martin
  • The future’s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster. — Frank Iero
  • Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. — Van Wyck Brooks
  • May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
  • The golden age is before us, not behind us. — William Shakespeare
  • Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. — George Bernard Shaw
  • A world to be born under your footsteps. — Saint-John Perse
  • The future is as bright as the promises of God. — William Carey
  • If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night. — Joe Frazier

Bright Image Quotes

For every single dark night there is a brighter day. - Tupac Shakur quote

For every single dark night there is a brighter day. — Tupac Shakur

Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness. - John of Capistrano quote

Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness. — John of Capistrano

Bright quote When you can't look on the bright side I will sit with you in the dark.
When you can't look on the bright side I will sit with you in the dark.

Future Is Bright Quotes

Whatever your past may have been, your future is still spotless. - Boonaa Mohammed

Whatever your past may have been, your future is still spotless. — Boonaa Mohammed

Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework. — Jim Rohn

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Bright quote When you can't look on the bright side i will sit with you in the dark.
When you can't look on the bright side i will sit with you in the dark.

India is a major power, with a youthful and hardworking population, and has an incredibly bright future. I hope the U.K. can be part of that journey as a close partner. — Rishi Sunak

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. — Leonard Bernstein

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget. — Anurag Kashyap

Bright quote The people that are there for you on your darkest nights are the ones worth spending your brightest
The people that are there for you on your darkest nights are the ones worth spending your brightest days with.

I don't know how it happened, but everyone thinks I'm this crazy b***h. Maybe because I don't have eyebrows. A lot of bands talk s**t about me and I post a blog calling them out. F**k them. The future is bright pink so put on some sunglasses, b****es. — Jeffree Star

The future is bright at Ohio State. — Urban Meyer

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. — George Bernard Shaw

The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory. — Mao Zedong

Bright Lights Quotes

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up. — Jack Welch

Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world. — Ramana Maharshi

Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God. — Pope John Paul II

Bright quote Extinguishing the light of other peoples candles, does not make yours burn brighter.
Extinguishing the light of other peoples candles, does not make yours burn brighter.

Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well. — Ramakrishna

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God. — Saint Augustine

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights. — Joe Frazier

Bright quote She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too bright for this world.
She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too bright for this world.

Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly. — Abdu'l-Bahá

You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights. — Joe Frazier

It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As the flower turns to the sun, that the bright beams may aid in perfecting its beauty and symmetry, so should we turn to the Sun of Righteousness, that Heaven's light may shine upon us, that our character may be developed in to the likeness of Christ. — Ellen G. White

Shine Bright Quotes

Blooming under a cold moon, we are like fireworks... Rising, shining, and finally scattering and fading. So until that moment comes when we vanish like fireworks... Lets us sparkle brightly, Always. — Tite Kubo

I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever. — Hatshepsut

... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre. — Maria W. Stewart

Bright quote Let your light shine so brightly that others can see their way out of the dark.
Let your light shine so brightly that others can see their way out of the dark.

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. — Linda Goodman

Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright. — Marlene Dumas

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut. - Eric Thomas

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut. — Eric Thomas

Bright quote Rise up. Start fresh. See the bright opportunity in each new day.
Rise up. Start fresh. See the bright opportunity in each new day.

Bright lights, they tend to burn out fast. So I shine bright, but I'm scared that it won't last. — Donald Glover

I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

It's no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others. — Cam Newton

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast. — Talib Kweli

Bright Future Quotes

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way In this bright future you can't forget your past So dry your tears I say. — Bob Marley

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements. — Mao Zedong

Bright quote If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.
If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.

I am certain from what I have witnessed from my simple interaction with bright minds and hopeful, optimistic faces that we are betting on the right people and the right generation for the future of the UAE. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. — John F. Kennedy

Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Bright quote Look at the bright side
Look at the bright side

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. — William Westmoreland

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. — E. B. White

May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you? — Jerry Smith

I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past, you got a bright future behind you. — Drake

Bright Eyes Quotes

Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies, Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies: The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays, On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays; Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume, Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume. — Phillis Wheatley

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? — William Blake

Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only. — Alexander Maclaren

When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there. — Harold Monro

Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away from the real thing: the big trapezoid beneath it. — Anton Szandor LaVey

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes. — Lord Byron

Lethal like venomous snake bites the marijuana makes my eyes bright red like brake lights — Canibus

Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue. — Don McLean

Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. — Alexander Pope

Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew. — Julia Caroline Dorr

Burning Bright Quotes

A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there. — Helen Steiner Rice

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long. - Lao Tzu

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long. — Lao Tzu

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason! — Bryant H. McGill

Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped. — Glenda Millard

To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule. — Marnie Reed Crowell

Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith. — Boyd K. Packer

The real gladiators of the world are so humble in their origins and unremarkable in appearance that when we stand next to them in a grocery-store line, we never guess how brightly their souls can burn in the dark. — James Lee Burke

There is a place where the sidewalk ends, And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind. — Shel Silverstein

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. — Boris Yeltsin

In my mind, I see all of my passionate memories in bright, burning Red. — Taylor Swift

Bright Colors Quotes

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy. — Philippe Starck

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. — Allen Klein

I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough — Mos Def

Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich. — Yuri Gagarin

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not. — Ann Demeulemeester

Not all plants are equal: some have much more polyphenols than others, and as a general rule bright or dark colours are a good sign, including a wide range of berries, beans, artichokes, grapes, prunes, red cabbage, spinach, peppers, chilli, beetroot and mushrooms. — Tim Spector

Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing. — Mickey Mantle

It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful. — Titian

It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes. — Leon Battista Alberti

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper. — Henry Rollins

Bright Star Quotes

Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. — Ernest Hemingway

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all. — John Keats

There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Be so warm that people mistake you for the sun, so bright that people mistake you for the stars, and so accommodating that people mistake you for the universe. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe. — Maria Mitchell

You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love — Rumi

Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline. — Mos Def

There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind. — Hannah Szenes

The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it. — Sarah Winnemucca

Brilliant Quotes

Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time — William Shakespeare

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. — Charles R. Swindoll

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant. — Paulo Coelho

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Confucius

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Confucius

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears. — Avicenna

You're beautiful like a flower More valuable than a diamond You are powerful like a fire... There is nothing in the world that you cannot do When you believe in you, who are beautiful Yeah you, who are brilliant Yeah you, who are powerful Yeah you, who are resilient — India.Arie

I think that sometimes almost the bigger tragedy in a weird way is all of the future imagined creative projects that could have happened that didn't. I feel the same way about lots of brilliant people who die young, kind of senselessly especially. — Chris Cornell

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. — Carl Jung

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target — Ashleigh Brilliant

Brighten Quotes

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — Alexander Hamilton

If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way - Nichiren

If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way — Nichiren

A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies. — John B. Tabb

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day. - Vin Scully

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day. — Vin Scully

With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nourishment, a comforting elixir. Music multiplies all that is beautiful and of value in life. — Zoltan Kodaly

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. - Buddha

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. — Buddha

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. — Whoopi Goldberg

O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way. — Aimee Semple McPherson

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds. — Dale Carnegie

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. — Plutarch

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More Bright Quotes

Allow failure to teach you A supreme lesson: Each sunset is the beginning Of a very, very bright And powerful sunrise. — Sri Chinmoy

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it. — Tupac Shakur

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me. — Isaac Newton

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. — Morgan Freeman

Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child. — Marva Collins

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. — Robert Fulghum

I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side... — Ned Kelly

There is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. Here and now is our day of torment! Here and now is our day of joy! Here and now is our opportunity! Choose ye this day, this hour, for no redeemer liveth! — Anton Szandor LaVey

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace. — Joseph Mohr

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. — Suzanne Collins

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing. — Therese of Lisieux

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