Chinese Proverb Quotes

It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

Action is the antidote to despair.

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

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

I believe in not sitting down and taking it easy.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems.

There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at the bottom, you find shafts of light.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

Don't despair, even over the fact that you don't despair

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something, I wouldn't have spoken.

If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more meaningful.

Darkness does not truly have sway. I think that it's weak.

There are people who dismiss any ideas you have about helping, but anything has got to be better than doing absolutely nothing... hasn't it?