Light At The End Of The Tunnel Quote

[Jannet Nevels]

Nomatter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.

Believe in your dreams. Believe in today. Believe that you are loved. Believe that you make a difference. Believe we can build a better world. Believe when others might not. Believe there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you might be that light for someone else. Believe that the best is yet to be. Believe in each other. Believe in yourself. I believe in you.

Greater is he who suffers through the pain and comes through the other side improved. Greater is he who accepts discouragement and keeps forward momentum, never retreating. Greater is he who sees the light at the end of the tunnel and keeps their eye on the light. Greater is he who gets knocked off his feet and gets back up, dusts himself off and gets back in the fight. Life is tough, but you are stronger.

The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

Reading Psalms has helped me to realize how short-sighted my prayers have been. So often, I focus only on asking God to deliver me from the tunnel. Speed up the passage, Lord! Please just spit me out on the other side already!

You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

The obstacle that has been standing in my way from submitting my dissertation was the fatty acid profile (egg yolk) samples that I had sent to the Agricultural Research Council Lab for profiling. I have to sincerely thank them for their quick turn over time because fatty acid profile analysis normally takes forever and a day. To be honest, my impatient side was starting to get the better of me. At times, the desire to succeed does force us to make irrational decisions that we later regret in life, all in the name of progress. Thank God it never came to that though (Chuckles). So I received the data a few weeks back and since then, I have managed to put the data on Excel, run it using the SAS Procedure, tabulated and finally discussed the obtained results.

The results were not what I originally hypothesised in my proposal. There is no doubt chemically, that Moringa oleifera seeds are exceptional but the results obtained were not at all positive. Moringa oleifera seed meal in my study decreased feed intake and body weights of chickens and did not improve the omega 3, 6 and 9 fatty acids in egg yolks. This was a horribly negative result from my perspective.

Through the dark times in my life, I have always been lucky to have coping mechanisms that assisted me in navigating my way through the dark tunnels of life. Having important individuals travelling with you through the dark times of your life is one of the coping mechanisms. My supervisors, my friends, my family and my girl friend have always been part of that support structure. Any great person will tell you that there are times in life where you doubt yourself, times when you feel like giving up would be easier than to continue.Having such people in your life is awesome, people who will remind you of your talent, your abilities and why you decided to embark on that journey in the first place.

will have ups and downs, maybe more downs than ups and you will virtually travel under pitch black tunnels but if you have a rigid support structure and also use all the acquired knowledge and assistance from all the troubles that you faced to navigate those dark tunnels then you will be fine. It will be scary at first but just like me, your tunnel will have a light at the end if you work hard and believe in yourself in whatever you do.

Newspaper database searches turn up instances in which "light at the end of the tunnel" is used in a literal sense going back to the 1850s. But the earliest figurative sense of the term appears to be this one, from "The Woman Who Was Done," in the St. Louis [Missouri] Republic (July 13 1902):

As to the students' library, I am at last able to see light at the end of the tunnel. The Right Rev. Dr. Carroll, Bishop of Lismore, has very generously promised one hundred pounds. And I have received donations of 5 each from the following The Sacred Heart Nuns, Rose Bay; the Sacred Heart pupils, Rose Bay; "a Sydney priest;" Miss Hally, Turramurra; Mster Dick Honnor, Junee; Mr. Neil Macdonald, Neutral Bay. In all, between cash and promises to date, I have rceived for the library 380 out o the 500, which was estimated as needful to make an effective beginning.

So the day seems to be dawning upon which more people will discern that instead of condemnation and denunciation of those who differ from us, is about to be relegated to the rear and a more wholesome and a more sane concept is to prevail with which the inherent decency and kindly human spirit will manifest unshackled and unrestricted for the peace and happiness of all. "Love's struggle throughout the ages" yet continues, but "there's light at the end of the tunnel," I feel.

Sometimes we have an experience in life that seems like walking through a long dark tunnel. The chilling air and the thick darkness make it hard walking, and the constant wonder is why we are compelled to tread so gloomy a path, while others are in the open day of health and happiness. We can only fix our eyes on the bright light at the end of the tunnel, and we comfort ourselves with the thought that every step we take brings us nearer to the joy and the rest that lie at the end of the way.

Cuyler, who was English, wrote this extremely popular book following the death of his daughter during a typhoid epidemic. The book went through at least seven editions in 1882 alone. I suspect that this instance of "light at the end of the tunnel" is the one that Etymology online cites as the earliest known occurrence of the expression used in a metaphorical sense.

The circulation of the War Cry has been another item causing considerable perplexity, but with coming of our new Editor from far-distant Australia, we see fresh light at the end of the tunnel.

Mr. William Stead, son of Mr. W. T. Stead, is assisting Mr. John Morley with his life of Gladstone in a secretarial capacity. It is still uncertain when the biography will be published, but Mr. Morley says that he now discerns a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel.

But with the supremacy of science, the introduction of the one-piece system in business, and the gradually growing conviction that honesty is man's most valuable asset, we behold light at the end of the tunnel.

One later but potentially very important instance of the phrase "the light at the end of the tunnel" in Google Books search results (with regard to popularizing it) is in a paper, "The American Proposal for International Control," presented by Bernard Baruch, and reported in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (July 1, 1946):

All of us are consecrated to making an end of gloom and hopelessness. It will not be an easy job. The way is long and thorny, but supremely worth traveling. All of us want to stand erect, with our faces to the sun, instead of being forced to burrow into the earth like rats.

The light at the end of the tunnel is dim, but our path seems to grow brighter as we actually begin our journey. We cannot yet light the way to the end. However, we hope the suggestions of my government will be illuminating.

On the 14th of June, 1946, Bernard Baruch, in one of the great state papers of all time, summarized where mankind stood: "The light at the end of the tunnel is dim, but our path seems to grow brighter as we actually begin our journey."

Baruch's statement of hope about the dim the light at the end of the dangerous tunnel of atomic power (and the development of nuclear weaponry) may have led to widespread use of the saying, including (very famously) U.S. General William Westmoreland's use of the phrase in November 1967 in the context of Vietnam, and less famously (but earlier) in Lyndon Johnson's statement in 1966 to the same effect:

The earliest instance of light at the end of the tunnel in Google Books is from 1921. It deals with a visit to Washington by the then British Prime Minister Lloyd George to attend the Washington Naval Conference, I think. The same article appears simultaneously in the Christian Register and the Unitarian Register:

Mr. Lloyd George is confident that the Washington Conference will not end in mere resolutions, but in a real pact of peace. He sees the light at the end of the tunnel. God grant that we may emerge into that light.

The next instance in Google Books is from 1932. This time the tunnel refers to the Great Depression, which had started with the 1929 stock market crash, and an end to which was not in sight for some yet. I managed to put together a fairly clear text from this snippet of The Literary Digest and this other one that Google lets us see:

I am willing to do my best when it comes to the future. I hope we may all see the approach of light at the end of the tunnel. Some people already have been able to point out that light to us. I, myself, see it somewhat indistinctly, but I admit that, for the moment, the way is not clear.

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