A Quote by William Arthur Ward

Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

William Arthur Ward

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Achievement Candle Enthusiasm Lights Match

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William Arthur Ward
American - Writer
1921 - 1994

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

Thomas Jefferson

Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

Roger Waters

Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

James Keller

If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.

Charles Spurgeon

She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light.

Michael Ondaatje

Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.

N. T. Wright

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.

Laura Esquivel

How beautiful to look at When my prayer Lights a candle of hope In my heart.

Sri Chinmoy

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Giovanni Ruffini

Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

Thomas Jefferson

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Wallace Stevens

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives