Illuminate Your Path: A Collection of Short Inspirational Lighthouse Quotes

"A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"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

"What does a lighthouse do? It never moves. It cannot hike up its rocky skirt and dash into the ocean to rescue the foundering ship. It cannot calm the waters or clear the shoals. It can only cast light into the darkness. It can only point the way. Yet, through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Show this old lighthouse the way."

- Lisa Wingate

"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 and remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"Once we choose hope, everything is possible."

- Christopher Reeve

"A wise person is like a lighthouse. We are looking for their lights and follow them when we are in danger."

- Debasish Mridha

"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

"God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses."

- Shannon Alder

"Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"The library is every child’s lighthouse. It is every person’s sanctuary. It is every town and country’s fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion, and bad behavior."

- Amy Bloom

"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 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

"I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve."

- George Bernard Shaw

"You are the lighthouse. The final destination. You can sleep easy, my dearest. The others . . . they are the shifting waves, But you are the harbor."

- Margot S. Baumann

"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

"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

"Let hope be your Lighthouse, beckoning you through stormy seas."

- Jessica de la Davies

"The lighthouse of the Lord beckons to all as we sail the seas of life."

- Thomas S Monson

"Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman."

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"Be Kind Anyway"

- Mother Teresa

"If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"A lighthouse keeps sailors from danger, to navigate from danger out there. The light is a comforting thing to see."

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

- Francis Bacon

"What does a lighthouse do? I ask myself. It never moves. It cannot hike up its rocky skirt and dash into the ocean to rescue the foundering ship. It cannot calm the waters or clear the shoals. It can only cast light into the darkness. It can only point the way. Yet, through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Show this old lighthouse the way."

- Lisa Wingate

"A lighthouse may seem old and cracked / But can save you when you fight against the gale / And so you look for a pair of bright eyes / When everything else seems to fail."

- Morten Maehre

"I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing."

- Munia Khan

"Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other."

- Virginia Woolf

"An awake heart is like a lighthouse helping others to find a safe way home."

- Rolf van der Wind

"The lighthouse that stands unintentionally stoic and tall and lights the way for those out at sea."

- Buffy Sammons

"The lighthouse braces against the wind / Silver light reaching for the lost / Laced windows, worried eyes / Fearful of the cost."

- Art Davis

"Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining."

- Anne Lamott

"Be the lighthouse that bears the torment of the storm, but never forget to show the saving lights of life."

- Debasish Mridha

"The love within them shone as brightly as the lighthouse beam on the darkest, stormiest night."

- Jody Hedlund

"Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse; that’s the story I want to tell."

- Elinor DeWire

"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

"A true friend who leaves heartfelt messages can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth."

- Tom Baker

"Like a simple little lighthouse, my true ideal is to just be… having no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace."

- Bodhi Smith

"The lighthouse does great service to humanity yet it is the slave to those who trim the lamps."

- Alice Wellington Rollins

"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

"The lighthouse shines across the sea; The homing fieldfares sing for glee: 'Behold the shore!'"

- Ada Cambridge

"The past is a lighthouse not a port."

- Russian Proverb

"A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef."

- Proverb

"She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliance!"

- Henry James

"The lighthouse shines across the sea; / The homing fieldfares sing for glee: / ‘Behold the shore!’"

- Ada Cambridge

"If you close your eyes, no lighthouse can help you!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"The lighthouse lost its beam / And now all I see / Is the face of the cliffs between the moonlight waxing."

- Garrett Michael Zablocki

"It might have been the lighthouse spark / Some sailor, rowing in the dark, / Had importuned to see!"

- Emily Dickinson

"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships."

- Charles Simic

"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

"Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is."

- Dierks Bentley

"When we buried my mother, some of the light went out of me, and it seemed proper that I should go and live in a place where all the light shone outwards and none of it was there for us."

- Jeanette Winterson

"The light is mine."

- The Lighthouse

"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck."

- Immanuel Kant

"Be like a lighthouse and shine."

"The scars you share become lighthouses for other people who are headed to the same rocks you hit."

"Thy word is a lamp"

"A lighthouse doesn’t compete; it just stands tall and shines."

"Don’t forget that maybe you are the lighthouse in someone’s storm."

"Never will I leave you"

"Be a lighthouse. Shine for others when they are in darkness."