Let Your Light Shine: A Powerful Collection of Inspirational Quotes

"As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson

"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

"We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on that’s who we really are."

- J.K. Rowling

"I think that nothing is impossible when you want to fulfill a dream. A lot of people will tell you that you can't do it, that you don't have what it takes, but if it is in your heart and you feel it, there is nothing that will stop you. It is like the sun - you can't block it: it will shine regardless, if that is what you want."

- Thalia

"The more light you allow within you the brighter the world you live in will be."

- Shakti Gawain

"Simply shine your light on the road ahead, and you are helping others to see their way out of darkness."

- Katrina Mayer

"You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won’t feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same."

- Marianne Williamson

"Do not allow others to diminish your light due to their own fears and insecurities. Instead, let your light shine so brightly, that you illuminate a pathway for others to find their way out of the darkness!"

- Dr. Stacey A. Maxwell

"Nothing can dim the light that shines from within."

- Maya Angelou

"In the midst of darkness, light persists."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Your work is to discover who you are and then with all your heart give your light to the world."

- Jennifer Williamson

"If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself."

- Thomas S. Monson

"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being."

- Lucille Ball

"If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun."

- APJ Abdul Kalam

"Ours is the responsibility to keep our lights bright for others to see and follow."

- Thomas S. Monson

"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 the shining—they just shine."

- Dwight L. Moody

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

- Charles Dickens

"The darkness around us might somewhat light up if we would first practice using the light we have in the place we are."

- Henry S. Haskins

"Stars don’t shine because they want to be seen. They shine because they are stars."

- Alexander Den Heijer

"When you possess light within, you see it externally."

- Anaïs Nin

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."

- Richard Bach

"Be aware that who you are and what you have to offer can be a beacon to some lost soul."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Accept your light and let it shine to create your own lighthouse on a stormy night."

- Pauline Duncan-Thrasher

"Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun."

- John Lennon

"Small lights have a way of being seen in a dark world."

- Neal A. Maxwell

"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don’t have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover."

- Beth Moore

"There is no darkness so dense, so menacing, or so difficult that it cannot be overcome by light."

- Vern P. Stanfill

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

"Be true to your heart... put your whole heart and soul into it, and then whatever you do, it will shine through."

- Jamie Brewer

"You can't keep a star from shining and my star's going to shine bright."

- Aljamain Sterling

"The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path."

- Jim Rohn

"Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are. To me, that's what being a star means."

- Dolly Parton

"There isn’t enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle."

- Robert Alden

"Look, I can't dim my shine just because some people feel uncomfortable."

- Israel Adesanya

"I want to prove that I'm the best and that I deserve the spotlight so I can shine."

- Bianca Belair

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."

- Henry Ford

"Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it."

- Ralph Marston

"The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things."

- Robin S. Sharma

"You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours."

- Patrick Kane

"Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine."

- Chris Hadfield

"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

- Sir Francis Bacon

"People just see the shine. They don't see the grind, the bags under my eyes. It was a lot of grinding, setbacks... I ain't finna let nothing stop me. Wherever I stop at, I already know who I am."

- Kodak Black

"Don't let the insecurities of others dull your sparkle. Shine like the star you are born to be."

- Karen Civil

"Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position."

- Jennie Finch

"Show up, shut up, and shine."

- Stephanie Savage

"Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light."

- Madeleine L’Engle

"I realized that when I allowed myself to be free again, I started to shine on the inside and outside."

- Tabitha Brown

"The more you shine, the more positively people start looking at you."

- Mark Henry

"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."

- James A. Michener

"The word 'Namaste' means 'the light in me reflects the light in you' and I think the thing that makes people attractive are the people who shine their light and the people who can recognize that light in others."

- Chris Sullivan

"I was close to joining Barcelona and Real Madrid, but I am happy to have remained at Inter because I knew that sooner or later our moment to shine would arrive, and it did."

- Javier Zanetti

"It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth."

- Debbie Ford

"Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine."

- Kim Collins

"Light attracts light."

- Warsan Shire

"My broken brilliance will shine a light in the darkness."

- Matt Hardy

"Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance."

- Park Shin-hye

"Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts."

- Alan Cohen

"Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world."

- A Course in Miracles

"Let God's promises shine on your problems."

- Corrie Ten Boom

"The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines!"

- Jose Rizal

"I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today."

- Ken Wilber

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

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak."

- Augustus Hare

"The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth."

- Chanakya

"A world where people do not care about the quality of their experience is not a good world for Apple. A world where people care about those details and want to complain about them is the world where our values shine."

- Craig Federighi

"We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine."

- Matthew Simpson

"God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine."

- John Piper

"Look after yourself from within, and your beauty will shine through on your skin."

- Shanina Shaik

"The only way to stop gaslighting is to shine the light of reality onto a situation. That makes it imperative for the perpetrator to keep victims in the dark."

- Heather Cox Richardson

"We encounter and enter our richest, most humanly defining experiences by way of a tear in the fabric of things, because we are running late, or because we recognize, across a crowded room, a face whose lack of perfection allows a unique light to shine through and to stir us with uncommon wonder."

- Eugene Kennedy

"The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one."

- Gary Allan

"Let's shine a bright light on our problems and run into the light."

- Glenn Youngkin

"Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized."

- Luis Fortuno

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The sun doesn't always shine in West Virginia, but the people do."

- John F. Kennedy

"A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit."

- Michael Kors

"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."

- Charles Lamb

"I think BTS is able to shine because we have fans."

- Suga

"Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss."

- Samuel Beckett

"The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations."

- Franz Liszt

"The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time."

- Catfish Hunter

"Count on me to shine where it doesn't count."

- Katya Zamolodchikova

"If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining."

"Your greatest test is when you are able to bless someone else while you are going through your own storm."

- Unknown

"All of the lights of the world cannot be compared to a ray of the inner light of the self."