Heart Quotes

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Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances. -Unknown.
~ Unknown
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds. -Unknown.
~ Unknown
The worst prison would be a closed heart. -Unknown.
~ Unknown
To believe your own thought, to believe that that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,-that is genius. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart, The secret anniversaries of the heart... -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. -George Bernard Shaw.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. -Zelda Fitzgerald.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty. -Woodrow Wilson,.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
~ William Butler Yeats
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. -Washington Irving.
~ Washington Irving
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. -Washington Irving.
~ Washington Irving
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart. -Walter Savage Landor.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.
~ Vernon Baker
I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. -TOM C. CLARK.
~ Tom C Clark
Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
~ Thomas Paine
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. -Thomas Fuller.
~ Thomas Fuller
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. -Thomas Carlyle.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. -Theodore Parker.
~ Theodore Parker
A person's world is only as big as their heart -Tanya A. Moore.
~ Tanya A Moore
Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want. -Sue Bender.
~ Sue Bender
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -Sir Winston Churchill.
~ Sir Winston Churchill
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow. -Sir Philip Sidney.
~ Sir Philip Sidney
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? -Seneca.
~ Seneca
It is my heart That makes my songs, not I. Marc Chagall -Sara Teasdale.
~ Sara Teasdale
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. -Rumi.
~ Rumi
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. -Raoul Dufy.
~ Raoul Dufy
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart And try to love the questions themselves. -RAINER MARIA RILKE.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
When the future hinges on the next words that are said, don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead.
~ Philip Robison
The heart has its reasons that reason does not know. -Pascal.
~ Pascal
The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. -Nietzche.
~ Nietzche
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess. -Nicholas Chamford .
~ Nicholas Chamford
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart. What jailer so inexorable as one's self? -Nathaniel Hawthorne.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. -Mother Teresa.
~ Mother Teresa
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. -Michael Bridge.
~ Michael Bridge
The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.
~ Menius
The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.
~ Menicus
The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart.
~ Mecius
To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart -- this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal. -Mary Baker Eddy.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. -Martin Luther King.
~ Martin Luther King
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. -Martin Luther.
~ Martin Luther
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. -Maria Mitchell.
~ Maria Mitchell
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. -Marc Chagall.
~ Marc Chagall
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. Charles Dickens -Louis Nizer.
~ Louis Nizer
There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
~ Lord Byron
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. -Lincoln.
~ Lincoln
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts. -Lao Tzu.
~ Lao Tzu
The way to the heart is through the ears. Thanks to John Travis -Katie Hurley.
~ Katie Hurley
The way to the heart is through the ears -Katie Hurley.
~ Katie Hurley
I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head Katharine Whitehorn
~ Katharine Whitehorn
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. -Justice Learned Hand.
~ Justice Learned Hand
The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute. -Junius.
~ Junius
It is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart! -John Bunyan.
~ John Bunyan
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart. -John Bunyan .
~ John Bunyan
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart. -John Adams.
~ John Adams
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. -Johann Georg Zimmermann.
~ Johann Georg Zimmermann
Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart. -Jesus Christ.
~ Jesus Christ
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jean Jacques Rousseau.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man. -Jean Giraudoux.
~ Jean Giraudoux
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. -James Earl Jones.
~ James Earl Jones
If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should not grow old. -James A. Garfield.
~ James A Garfield
The heart is wiser than the intellect. -J.G. Holland.
~ J g Holland
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. -J. Krishnamutri.
~ J Krishnamutri
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. -Henry Ward Beecher.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences. -Henry Ward Beecher.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. -Henry Fielding.
~ Henry Fielding
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart. -Henry Clay (1777-1852).
~ Henry Clay
Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. -Henri Frederic Amiel.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky.
~ Helena Petrova Blavatsky
The heart that loves is always young.
~ Greek Proverb
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. -Golda Meir.
~ Golda Meir
All the knowledge I possess everyone can acquire, but my heart is all my own. -Goethe.
~ Goethe
Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. -Galatians.
~ Galatians
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
~ French Proverb
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. -Frederika Bremer.
~ Frederika Bremer
If you took all the sincerity in Hollywood and put it in the navel of a fruit fly, you'd still have room for three carraway seeds and a producer's heart. -Fred Allen.
~ Fred Allen
The heart is the first feature of working minds. -Frank Lloyd Wright.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. -Francois.
~ Francois
To believe your own thought, to believe that that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,-that is genius. -Emerson.
~ Emerson
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. -Emerson.
~ Emerson
The purpose of the heart is to know yourself to be yourself and yet one with God. -Edgar Cayce.
~ Edgar Cayce
Light breaks where no sun shines; / Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart / Push in their tides. -Dylan Thomas.
~ Dylan Thomas
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. -Deepak Chopra.
~ Deepak Chopra
Love does not only transform our mental/emotional nature, it also involves the physical system of our body which goes through profound changes as well.
~ David Mcarthur
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.
~ Daphine Rose Kingma
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. -Confucius.
~ Confucius
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come.
~ Chinese Proverb
There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart
~ Chandogya Upanishad
Seeds, like hearts must open to grow.
~ Carol Horos
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
~ Carl Jung
Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.
~ Braveheart
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. -Bob Hope.
~ Bob Hope
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss. -Black Elk.
~ Black Elk
Two things are bad for the heart-running up stairs and running down people.
~ Bernard M Baruch
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Franklin.
~ Benjamin Franklin
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. -Antonio Porchia.
~ Antonio Porchia
Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
~ Anthony J Dangelo
Have a strong mind and a soft heart. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
~ Anthony J Dangelo
The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.
~ Anon
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed! -Anne Sullivan.
~ Anne Sullivan
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world Both attitudes are within our power a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him
~ Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares.
~ Unattributed Author
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
~ Robert Burns
My favoured temple is in an humble heart.
~ Philip James Bailey
I have a heart with room for every joy.
~ Philip James Bailey
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
~ Joseph Addison
No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.
~ John Vance Cheney
A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My peace is gone, my heart is heavy.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.
~ George Crabbe
The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.
~ Emily Dickinson
There are strings, said Mr. Tappertit, '. . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated.'
~ Charles Dickens
My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
~ Cervantes Saavedra
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
~ Cervantes Saavedra
He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
~ Bible
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
~ Bible
All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
~ Bible
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
~ Bible
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
~ Bible
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
~ Bible
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
~ Bible
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I cause the widow's heart to sing for joy.
~ Bible
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
~ Seneca
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
~ Proust, Marcel
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
~ Lover, Samuel
Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest.
~ Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The heart of a man to the heart of a maid - Light of my tents, be fleet - Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet.
~ Kipling, Rudyard