Beacon Quotes

… shining city upon a hill

If the United States is to be a beacon of hope around the world, our actions have to match our ideals.

I never really had an idol.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world

We are a nation of immigrants. It is immigrants who brought to this land the skills of their hands and brains to make it a beacon of opportunity and of hope for all men.

You shine like a beacon in a dark world.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.

In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

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.

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

Prosperity need not come at the expense of this country's proudest traditions as a beacon of justice.

Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.

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

I love that America represents a beacon of hope and opportunity in a world of uncertainty.

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

Would a serious country so completely lose perspective on its own past that it would entertain the idea that the nation was founded on slavery, rather than on the ideals that have made it a beacon to the rest of the world? And would a serious country think it appropriate to teach its children that the nation’s past is best understood as a parade of horrors, to which the most appropriate response is not pride but lacerating shame? … Nobody wants an account of the American past that is sanitized. We are all too aware of our many faults, and most of us understand the importance of owning up to them. But what we have wanted and needed instead is an account that places those faults in proper perspective—that understands them in much the same way that we understand every flawed but admirable person we have ever known and loved. We need to become a serious country again. And to do that, we need to believe in ourselves again, believe in the reason we have been placed here, as a land of hope for a world that needs hope more than ever. We need to understand that a world without America will be immeasurably diminished, both in material and spiritual terms, and that we have no choice but to live up to the responsibilities that come with our many blessings. Our history can be an enormous resource in that endeavor. The work will not be easy. … But it will be much harder to live with ourselves, and with the rebuke of the future, should we shrink from the challenge. And once we understand what is at stake, we may feel a certain exhilaration that comes of knowing what is being demanded of us.

We boast of being one of the oldest democracies in existence and it is a point of pride for many of us that British society represents a beacon of hope for repressed peoples living in authoritarian states around the world.

The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.

I'll be the light in the window.

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

Our Country is a beacon of hope for the world.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

I want to be a beacon to kids like me, the ones who grow up without hope.

Since the founding of our nation, our democracy has been the beacon of hope and the standard by which other countries look to.