a guiding light

a guiding light/spirit

someone who influences a person or group and shows them how to do something successfully She was the founder of the company, and for forty years its guiding light.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Rustam	-	Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tajik
Harduwich	-	Ancient Germanic
Primitivo	-	Spanish
Marita (2)	-	Swedish, Norwegian
Saburo	sah-boo-ṙo:	Japanese
Eleazar	el-ee-AY-zər (English)	Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek