Ignite Your Spirit: A Collection of Inspiring Fire Quotes

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."

- Ayn Rand

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

- Plutarch

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space. Don't be afraid of the challenges, the missteps, and the setbacks along the way. What matters is that you keep going."

- Kendra Scott

"I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls with clean blood and organized drawers. I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests at night when no one else is alive or awake however you choose to see it and I live in my own flames sometimes burning too bright and too wild to make things last or handle myself or anyone else and so I run. run run run far and wide until my bones ache and lungs split and it feels good. Hear that people? It feels good because I am the slave and ruler of my own body and I wish to do with it exactly as I please"

- Charlotte Eriksson

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

- Maya Angelou

"She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. _You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire._ He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer."

- Cassandra Clare

"I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn."

- Sarah J. Maas

"If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is."

- Charles Bukowski

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

"The flame of passion may waver in the face of challenges, but with persistence, it can grow into an unstoppable wildfire."

- Maya Angelou

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

- Terry Pratchett

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

- Ferdinand Foch

"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

- Arnold H. Glasow

"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it."

- Tennessee Williams

"There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed."

- Siddhārtha Gautama

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn."

- John Wesley

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."

- George Washington

"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses."

- Ann Landers

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."

- Buddha

"I have plenty of fire myself. 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. And only Peeta can give me that."

- Suzanne Collins

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"Love, like fire, goes out without fuel."

- Mikhail Lermontov

"Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it."

- Mary Lou Retton

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire"

- Gustav Mahler

"There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."

- Vincent van Gogh

"There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire."

- Bernard Williams

"She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire."

- Charles Bukowski

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness."

- Eckhart Tolle

"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."

- Eric Hoffer

"Fire and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by nature."

- R.F. Kuang

"When she awoke, the world was on fire."

- Scott Westerfeld

"Fire has its beauty, but it can also be unpredictable and destructive. It’s a reminder that power should always be handled with caution."

- Michelle Obama

"I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire."

- Ilona Andrews

"I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people into giving her BMWs. You're no more a freak than we are. And, hey, maybe you can fly, too. Like jump off a building and yell 'Flame on!'" Leo snorted. "If I did that, you would see a flaming kid falling to his death, and I would be yelling something a little stronger than 'Flame on!""

- Rick Riordan

"Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them."

- Suzy Kassem

"Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?"

- Gerard Way

"I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night. He opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment, his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. "But that wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help you sleep."

- Kristin Cashore

"Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake."

- Kristin Cashore

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

"A spark neglected makes a mighty fire."

"If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned."