45 Candle Quotes to Light Your Way

1. “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” - Anne Frank

2. “Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.” - Osho

3. “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.” - Rumi

4. "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." – James Keller

5. “A candle is at its brightest in the dark.” - Matshona Dhliwayo

6. “The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.” - Giovanni Ruffini

7. "Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle." - James Howell

8. “Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile.” - Brandon Sanderson

9. "Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly." - Edward Dunlop

10. "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." - Margaret Fuller

11. “Blowing out someone else’s candle doesn’t make yours shine any brighter.” - Jacqueline Vance

12. “Leadership is like candlelight. It helps bring forth light in the darkness.” - Gift Gugu Mona

13. “Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit.” - Harbhajan Singh

14. “If the night is dark, share the candle.” - Kitty Von Tastique

15. "It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun." - Algernon Sidney

1.“To light a candle is to cast a shadow.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

2. “A candle that never goes out reaches its highest value only in darkness that never ends!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

3. “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” - Buddha

4. “Being a candle is difficult because one must first burn in order to emit light.” - Shree Shambav

5. “Simple is her aim; to be a candle that lightens the world with the name of the Beloved.” -Mahrukh Memon

6. "Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it." - Israel Meir Kagan

7. "Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts." - Leo Tolstoy

8. “Our life here is but one burning candle in time – why do we worry so much?” - Bert McCoy

9. “As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.” - Romano Guardini

10. “A candle may burn with a desire for light just as wood may burn with a desire for warmth.” - Anthony T. Hincks

1. “Hope is a strange thing. It flickers like a candle flame, wavering when you least expect it and yet refusing to die completely.” - Kirby Larson

2. "All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle." – Francis of Assisi

3. "Hope is a strange thing. It flickers like a candle flame, wavering when you least expect it and yet refusing to die completely." - Kirby Larson

4. "Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." – Buddha

5. "How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." – William Shakespeare

6. "We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future." - John F. Kennedy

7. "Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle." – Benjamin Franklin

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

9. “Light a candle when you don’t know what to do. Sometimes the light doesn’t give you the answer — it shows you the path to it.” - Lina Sol

10. "A candle does not fight the dark; it simply shines."- Unknown

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

2. “Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you’re a flame in the dark.” - Ivan Illich

3. “What does it mean to be a candle? It means challenging the darkness even though you know you will die!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

4. “Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you’ve got to take the candle and walk alone.” - Lauren Kate

5. “Sometimes you have to be like a candle! What is the mission? To illuminate the darkness? So, no questions asked, just do the job, burn in silence! Set your mission and be like a candle, do your job, quietly, calmly, without complaining, without speaking, in silence!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

6. “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.” - Roy Bennett

7. "Kind people never live for themselves; they are like a candle. A candle never stops lighting up for others even when it melts." - Bruce Mbanzabugabo

8. "Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit." - James Russell Lowell

9. “The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serve, and it is a sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous.” - George R.R. Martin

10. “If the future looks dark, all you have to do is to find a candle and carry it with you! If it looks bright, the best thing to do is still to carry that candle, because the future can always create a different story! Always carry a candle by your side!” - Mehmet Murat ildan