127 Inspirational Quotes About Stars Guiding Light

Inspirational quotes about stars provide guidance for life’s journey. They remind us of our place in the universe and encourage us to persevere through challenges.

With simplicity and clarity, these quotes offer wisdom and inspiration, encouraging us to embrace hope and pursue our dreams amidst the vastness of existence.

1. “Not just beautiful, though–the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” – Haruki Murakami

2. “It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.” – Arthur Eddington

3. “And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next. We’re a sneeze in the life of the universe.” – Danny Wallace

4. “The stars are the land-marks of the universe.” – Sir John Frederick William Herschel

5. “Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.” – Peter Watts

6. “The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are” – Kami  Garcia

7. “Learn from stars; even in the dark they give off light, not despair.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

8. “Stars do not pull each other down to be more visible; they shine brighter.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

9. ”Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.” – Casey Kasem

10. “In your life, you will meet shooting stars. You will see them, make your wish and see them disappear.” – Nahiar Ozar

11. “The sun is not jealous of the stars, and is therefore able to benefit from them at night.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

12. “Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.” – Gilbert Parker

13. “Greet the world. Acknowledge the sky. Approach the stars. Embrace the universe.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

14. “What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? “ – E. M. Forster

15. “Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.” – Richard Branson

16. “Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.” – Jose Marti

17. “We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.” – Ruth St. Denis

18. “I love the stars. Because they can’t say anything. I love the stars. Because they do not judge anyone.” – Natsuki Takaya

19. “There’s no night without stars.” – Andre Norton

20. “A star is a rock that never gave up on its dream to rise.” – Matshona Dhliwa

21. “Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.” – Nicolaus Copernicus

22. “The stars don’t look bigger, but they do look brighter.” – Sally Ride

23. “The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.” – Dennis Banks

24. “There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately children of the stars.” – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

25. “Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.” – Jeremy Bentham

26. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

27. “And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.” – Edmund Spenser

28. “The stars that have most glory have no rest.” – Samuel Daniel

29. “Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.” – Bette Davis

30. “Turn your scars into stars.” – Robert H. Schuller

31. “Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! “ – Lord Byron

32. “A star never loses its beauty because it was born in the dark.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

33. “Diamonds are buried stars.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

34. “We must remember that the sun is a star, but not all the stars are the sun.” – Munia Khan

35. ”I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don’t dream I will make it, I won’t even get close.” – Henry J. Kaiser

36. “When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.” – Akhenaton

37. “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” – Walt Whitman

38. “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” – Gustave Flaubert

39. “Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.” – Henry Van Dyke

40. “The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.” – John Milton

41. “Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.” – Brian Tracy

42. “Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.” – Maria Mitchell

43. “I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.” – Conor McGregor

44. “I’m not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.” – Mae Jemison

45. “Sometimes while gazing at the night’s sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

46. “One of the great things about stargazing is that it’s immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.” – Tim Ferriss

47. “Life, just like the stars, the planets and the galaxies, is just a temporary structure on the long road from order to disorder.” – Brian Cox

48. “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” – Stephen Hawking

49. “Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.” – Saint Augustine

50. “When a star blinks, it is acknowledging you; when it winks, it is embracing you.” –Matshona Dhliwayo

51. “Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.” – Omar N. Bradley

52. “Stars are meant to shine in the night sky. Be among the stars. Shine bright!” – Michael Bassey Johnson

53. “When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.” – Kalpana Chawla

54. “Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.” – Henry Ford

55. “You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.” – Cathy Freeman

56. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – Lisa Mantchev

57. “We are all stars in this galaxy. All of us. No one’s greater than the other.” – Scatman Crothers

58. “It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.”- Benjamin E. Mays

59. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” – Marcus Aurelius

60. “You reach for the stars and you work your butt off to achieve your dreams. If you fall short, you fall short, but you say you gave it your best.” – Frank Vogel

61. “I always believe shooting for the stars, and at the very least, you can land on the moon.” – Lana

62. “Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.” – Carl Schurz

63. “You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are, therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing.” – Bill Nye

64. ” It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare

65. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino

66. “One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.” – Miguel de Cervantes

67. “I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.“ – E. E. Cummings

68. “You’ve come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don’t know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.” – Rumi

69. “How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.” – William Butler Yeats

70. “If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are abloom with flowers.“ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

71. “When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night. And pay no worship to the garish sun.” – William Shakespeare

72. “Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.” – Victor Hugo

73. “No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.” – Helen Keller

74. “What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.” – William Wordsworth

75. “If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

76. “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

77. “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” –  J.R.R. Tolkien

78. “The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

79. “Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.” – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

80. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

81. “I’m not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don’t put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.” – Antonio Banderas

82. “Don’t keep reaching for the stars because you’ll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.” – Jimmy Fallon

83. “You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it’s like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.” – Tom Hanks

84. “Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.” – John Lennon

85. “There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.” – Elon Musk

86. “I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens… I look up into the stars and I imagine: ‘How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?” – Katy Perry

87. “I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.” – Mike Tyson

88. “We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.” – Marilyn Monroe

89.“Remember to reach for the stars, and they won’t be able to resist flying into your hands!“ – Katherine McNamara

90. “At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.” – Natalie Wood

91. “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.“ – Mother Teresa

92. “God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.” – Martin Luther

93. “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh

94. “The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.” – Galileo Galilei

95. ”If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.“ – Bill Watterson

96. “When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.“ – Leo Burnett

97. “When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are. Anything your heart desires will come to you.” – Jiminy Cricket

98. “Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” – Jack Kerouac

99. “Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.” – Les Brown

100. “His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.“ – Elias Canetti

101. “Even a fool knows you can’t touch the stars, but it won’t keep the wise from trying.” – Harry Anderson

102. “The stars are matter, we’re matter, but it doesn’t matter.” – Captain Beefhearty

103. “Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.” – Ben Stein

104. “Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?” – Richard P. Feynman

105. “To be a star isn’t enough. Try to be a constellation.” – Tamerlan Kuzgov

106. “The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.” – Richard P. Feynman

107. “As I sit and watch the stars, I am struck by the beauty of the universe and the loneliness of my place within it.” – Ajaz Ahmad Khawaja

108. “You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.” – Gary Allan

109. “I always wished to be a star in your dark night and you worshipped the sun instead.” – Wrushank Sorte

110. “Don’t whisper your wishes to faraway stars, shout them boldly at the sun.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

111. ”Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts

112. “If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.” – James E. Faust

113. “Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.” – Sojourner Truth

114. “I like to consider myself a star – a star, that when you look in the sky, it’s always there. And on a clear night… a shooting star comes by, and get a little thrill, and you make a little wish. You need both types of stars, the shooting and the constant stars. The heavens include them all.” – James Belushi

115. “The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.” – Joseph Addison

116. “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.” – John Muir

117. “Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.” – Carl Sagan

118. “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” – Carl Sagan

119. “Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.” – Aberjhani

120. “Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.” – Sai Baba

121. “God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.” – Max Lucado

122. “God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.” – Alfred Adler

123. “Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.” – Eric Hoffe

124. “God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.” – William Lyon Phelps

125. “After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.” – Charles Lindbergh

126. “How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die” – Thomas Cole

127. “Once a star dies, it’s gone forever. There are no new stars to take its place. Eventually, there will be no stars, and the universe will turn black. That really will be the end.” – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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