Michael Faraday Quotes

Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world. You can live life joyously, beautifully, unmarred by the ugliness of sin. This is our confidence in you.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.

I don't think there's anything better you can do in this world than bring light wherever you go.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

To be someone's inspiration is the biggest goal in my life.

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

We are indeed the light of the world-but only if our switch is turned on.

Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything I'm into, it's real to me. There's nothing fake about it.

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

I think I've always wanted to be a role model, and I think ... everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model. I think it's like the thing keeping me out of jail.

I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

I get a lot of people who will either write to me or come up in public and say, "My daughter, son, family, or I, etc. look up to you."

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature

If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.