Illuminate Your Path: 50 Inspirational Quotes About the Light at the End of the Tunnel

"A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings."

- Mandy Hale

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go"

- Carol Burnett

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

- Anais Nin

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows."

- Brené Brown

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty"

- Winston Churchill

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

- Moliere

"Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine."

- Mario Fernandez

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes"

- Wade Boggs

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."

- C.C. Scott

"A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure."

- Henry Kissinger

"The best way to predict the future is to create it"

- Peter Drucker

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power"

- William James

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead."

- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible"

- Christopher Reeve

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today"

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out"

- John Wooden

"The only way out is through."

- Robert Frost

"What you have done is nothing compared to what you can do"

- Grant Cardone

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you"

- Walt Whitman

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you"

- Mary Lou Retton

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness"

- Desmond Tutu

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence"

- Helen Keller

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you"

- Maori Proverb

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"It’s not that optimism solves all of life’s problems; it is just that it can sometimes make the difference between coping and collapsing"

- Lucy MacDonald

"When you’ve exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t."

- Thomas Edison

"I just think it would be a good thing to have a voice in the mix of all the hopelessness that actually gives you a light at the end of the tunnel; a voice that's still honest about the pain and struggle, but can also scream, 'Hey, wake up and be alive because there's hope!'"

- Lacey Sturm

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

- Desmond Tutu

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

- Maya Angelou

"The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is."

- Joss Whedon

"I want people to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Amber Mark

"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things."

- Demi Lovato

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"It gets better: there's a light at the end of the tunnel. It may take one day, it may take ten years. But one day, you will find happiness if you manifest it. Put that energy out, and it'll come back."

- Lil Xan

"We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

- Nelson Mandela

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again."

- Buddha

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

- Victor Hugo

"If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come."

- Zig Ziglar

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass but learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."

- St. Francis of Assisi

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows."

- St. Francis of Assisi

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the midst of darkness, light persists."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nibo Qubein

"The way out is through."

- Robert Frost

"Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you."

- Maori Proverb

"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light."

- S. Ajna

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness."

- Anne Frank

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about."

- Haruki Murakami

"The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"Stars can't shine without darkness."

- D.H. Sidebottom

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"I want to show people no matter what they go through there's a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Kyle Carpenter

"When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"There's going to be times where you're questioning yourself. But if you stay the course and believe in yourself and take it one day at a time, there's going to be a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Nick Bosa

"Every storm runs out of rain."

- Maya Angelou

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

- Leonard Cohen

"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

- John 1:5

"I wanted to put my present joy in the context of all the past pain, to show that there really is light at the end of the tunnel."

- Mariette Hartley

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."

- Walt Whitman

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"Within you is the light of a thousand suns."

- Robert Adams

"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."

- Charles Bukowski

"The wound is the place where the light enters you."

- Rumi

"There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters."

- Emily Blunt

"Mental health can be nasty but there is light at the end of the tunnel!"

- Kerry Katona

"When I started wrestling, WWE was a light at the end of the tunnel that no-one thought they could ever get to. Especially being British, only one or two people ever got there."

- Pete Dunne

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually, it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."

- Lance Armstrong

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on."

- Robert Frost

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

- Chinese Proverb

"Don't fight darkness—bring the light, and darkness will disappear."

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Allow your light to shine so brightly that others can see their way out of the dark."

- Katrina Mayer

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being."

- Albert Schweitzer

"There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness."

- Charles Bukowski

"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears."

- John Vance Cheney

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet."

- Helen Keller

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly."

- Proverb

"Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted."

- Christine Caine

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."

- Henry Ford

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't."

- Thomas A. Edison

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"It is always darkest just before the day dawneth."

- Thomas Fuller

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."

- Arthur Rubinstein

"If I truly believe everything that's in that book, God is in control. He is in control. He's working for my good. Doesn't mean everything's going to be smooth, but that's all I needed to know. There is a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Shawn Michaels

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"The darkest hour has only sixty minutes."

- Morris Mandel

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

- Shakti Gawain

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."

- Tori Amos

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."

- John Green

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."

- Ernest Shackleton

"So 'Heaven On My Mind' is a song I would never have thought about writing. But I really loved the concept knowing there is a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Becky Hill

"Light is the symbol of truth."

- James Russell Lowell

"Turn your face towards the sun and the shadows will fall behind you."

- Maori Proverb

"We took the path that led others nowhere and only we saw the light at the end of the tunnel."

- Akshay Vasu

"When you're writing about difficult things and darker issues, it's nice to offer some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Some sense of hope."

- Jens Lekman

"Light at the end of the tunnel says, this too shall pass, just keep moving with your head high."

- Faria Rehman

"Big clubs in Europe always go through difficult spells where it appears as though there is no light at the end of the tunnel. But because they are big clubs, they always come back, and they do so with a vengeance."

- Fernando Torres

"He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower."

- Terry Pratchett

"When there's no light at the end of the tunnel, it's hard to keep things going."

- Joe Sestak

"There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!"

- Mariah Carey

"Stars can’t shine without darkness."

- D.H. Sidebottom

"If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way."

- Barry Commoner

"After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner."

- Bob Beauprez

"The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train."

- Robert Lowell

"I can’t move, can’t get up, My arms are chained, My head’s not straight, I can’t see anyone at the end of the tunnel, I can’t move, can get up, My head’s not straight, My dreams have left, I feel empty and hollow, My arms are chained, The angel of fear is here with me, To give me a message “soon you’ll be free” There’s not light at the end of the tunnel, I feel empty and hollow."

- Quetzal

"Believe you can and you're halfway there"

"When the world says, ‘Give up,’ hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.'"

- Unknown

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place."

"Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us."

"When it feels like you're swallowed by the tunnel, remember: your breakthrough is the sunrise just waiting to happen."

"The echoes of resilience reverberate through the corridors of despair."

- Unknown

"In the tunnel of adversity, perseverance is the torch that guides you."

- Unknown

"When shadows dance around you, remember that you are the conductor of your own illumination."

- Unknown

"The tunnel may be long, but every step forward brings you closer to the light."

- Unknown

"Even the dimmest light can pierce through the thickest darkness."

- Unknown

"Life can be tough, but remember, you're tougher. Bring on the light!"

"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."

"Good things come to those who wait, but better things come to those who are patient."

"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind."

"In the tunnel of uncertainty, trust in the flicker of possibility."

- Unknown

"Sometimes, you've got to giggle in the face of adversity, because life's too short to not make a joke about it."

"Within the labyrinth of despair lies the hidden passage to hope."

- Unknown

"Remember, it's always darkest before the dawn."

"When you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine."

"Walking through darkness with thoughts full of colors."

- Unknown

"It takes darkness to be aware of the light."

- Unknown

"Find the glimmer of truth in the darkness of life's maze."

- Unknown

"Shadows cannot exist without light, just as despair cannot exist without hope."

- Unknown

"In the midst of darkness, I found the true light within me."

- Unknown

"Every shadow—no matter how deep—is threatened by morning light."

- Unknown

"The comeback is always stronger than the setback."

- Unknown

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle"

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly"

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"

"Stars can't shine without darkness"

"A light is still a light even though the blind man cannot see it"

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations"

"The darkest hour has only sixty minutes"

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person"

"However long the night, the dawn will break"

"The darkest nights produce the brightest stars"

"What makes night within us may leave stars"

"The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow"

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings"

"Hope lights the way through the darkest tunnels, and with every step, the light grows stronger. Keep walking toward it!"

"The greatest breakthroughs are always on the other side of perseverance"

"The darkest nights produce the brightest stars."

- Unknown

"You must go through the darkness to see the stars."

- Unknown

"The greater your storm, the brighter your rainbow."

- Unknown

"Through the veil of despair, glimpse the glimmer of possibility."

- Unknown

"Within the depths of despair, lies the seed of transformation."

- Unknown

"Hope is the ember that ignites the flame of renewal in the heart of darkness."

- Unknown

"Even in a tunnel, you can still see the light at both ends. Keep moving!"

- Unknown

"A seed grows with no sound, but a tree falls with huge noise. Be the light in the darkness silently."

- Unknown

"Your path is illuminated by the light, yet darkness lets the stars shine bright."

- Unknown

"Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers, but it can never hide the light of life."

- Unknown

"The light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion. The tunnel is."

"When you're swimming against the spiritual current, it's the divine whispers of hope that can crystalize into beams of light, guiding you through the murk."

"Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness."

- Unknown

"Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming."

- Unknown

"At the end of hardship comes happiness."

- Unknown

"Sometimes life's dark tunnel has a fabulous light-up dance floor at the end. Just keep dancing toward it!"

"After darkness comes the light."