80 Lighthouse Quotes
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Famous Lighthouse Quotes
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. — Benjamin Franklin
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 powerful light inside you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing — Thomas S. Monson
A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home. — Lea Michele
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott
Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. — Thomas S. Monson
I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve. — George Bernard Shaw
If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you open your eyes very wide and look around you carefully, you will always see a lighthouse which will lead you to the right path! Just watch around you carefully! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is no competition among lighthouses. — Mexican Proverbs
Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts. — Tom Baker
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. — Charles Simic
A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me. — Ford Madox Ford
Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Short Lighthouse Quotes
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent. — Henry David Thoreau
- A candle is at its brightest in the dark. — Matshona Dhliwayo
- For nothing was simply one thing. — Virginia Woolf
- It is impossible for light not to get noticed, especially in the dark. — Matshona Dhliwayo
- Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. — Immanuel Kant
- Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are. — Shannon Alder
- She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy! — Henry James
- A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine. — Dwight L. Moody
- Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. — Edwin P. Whipple
- Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse. — Charles Dickens
To The Lighthouse Quotes
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 all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
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 always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond. — Susane Colasanti
If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God. — Robert E. Lee
If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott
Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show. — Dierks Bentley
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 some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life. — Virginia Woolf
I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods. — Michael Koryta
It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent. — Laini Taylor
My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology. — Honor Harger
We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak. — George Downing
People Writing About Lighthouse
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Mehmet Murat Ildan |
1960 | 11660 |
 Thomas S. Monson |
435 | 2917 |
 Benjamin Franklin |
1399 | 22156 |
 Lea Michele |
59 | 258 |
 Anne Lamott |
615 | 4227 |
 George Bernard Shaw |
1399 | 16489 |
More Lighthouse Quotes
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 call attention to their shining- they just shine. — Dwight L. Moody
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so. — Vernon Howard
A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart. — Tom Baker
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 the fog at those very moments! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight. — Chris Tomlin
Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty ant! Everything that helps us to live is a hero! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior. — Amy Bloom
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 moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past. — Virginia Woolf
He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home. — Jamie O'Neill
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. — Edwin Percy Whipple
I forgot and left the lighthouse on all night. Next day the sun wouldn't rise. — Steven Wright
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him. — Robert M. Pirsig
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves. — Charles Dickens
He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things. — Virginia Woolf
For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles. — Errico Malatesta
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