160 Great Hearts Quotes

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Famous Great Hearts Quotes

Hearts Live By Being Wounded - Oscar Wilde

Hearts Live By Being Wounded — Oscar Wilde

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. — Hafez

People with good hearts are the ultimate winners. - Seohyun

People with good hearts are the ultimate winners. — Seohyun

True education consists in the cultivation of the heart. — Sai Baba

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. - Albert Camus

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. — Albert Camus

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. — Charles Dickens

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. - Isabel Allende

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. — Isabel Allende

Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country. — William McKinley

What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A heart makes a good home for the friend. - Yunus Emre

A heart makes a good home for the friend. — Yunus Emre

Better a broken heart than a hardened one. — Dalia Mogahed

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. - Thomas Carlyle

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. — Thomas Carlyle

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. — Charlotte Bronte

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. — Henry Ward Beecher

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated. — Robert McNamara

Short Great Hearts Quotes

  • Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens
  • Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. — Washington Irving
  • A thankful heart is the greatest virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • A heart in love with beauty never grows old. — Proverbs
  • There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. — Robert Frost
  • A heart that loves is always young. — Proverbs
  • Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. — Aristotle
  • Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers. — Hafez
  • A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. — Nelson Mandela

Top 10 Great Hearts Quotes

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. — H. L. Mencken

I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness. — Saladin

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible. — William Booth

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind. — Pablo Neruda

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. - Walt Disney

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things. - Joe Paterno

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things. — Joe Paterno

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. — Mencius

It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain. — Taiichi Ohno

We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

Great Hearts Image Quotes

The people who give you their food give you their heart. - Cesar Chavez quote

The people who give you their food give you their heart. — Cesar Chavez

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work - Steve Jobs quote

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work — Steve Jobs

Great hearts quote The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. s with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Hearts Together Quotes

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together. — Julia Roberts

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. — Marcus Aurelius

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness — Pablo Neruda

Great hearts quote The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of other, and the moment you are unafraid of the c
The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of other, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in you heart, the roar of freedom.

Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer. — Charles Grandison Finney

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same. — John Denver

Great hearts quote A great mind produces great men, but only the heart is able to guide them on the best ways.
A great mind produces great men, but only the heart is able to guide them on the best ways.

When a certain number of people come together and they choose at a moment in time to create a precise emotion in their hearts, that emotion literally can intentionally influence the very fields that sustain the life on planet earth. — Gregg Braden

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder. — Fulton J. Sheen

Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love. — Mechthild of Magdeburg

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever. — A. A. Milne

When You Have A Good Heart Quotes

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. — Charles Spurgeon

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. — Nelson Mandela

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain! — William Makepeace Thackeray

When you have a good heart: You help too much. You trust too much. You give too much. You love too much. And it always seems you hurt the most. — Nishan

And I don't feel any fear in a sense, because I have every good intention in my heart. When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that. — Michelle Yeoh

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, "You wouldn't understand." I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer. — Anne Lamott

Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking. — Mahbod Seraji

It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again—which I have—it's funny the other things that come back in with that open-ness. You have this ghost chorus of the lovers who came before, but they're benign now, they're good spirits. — Emma Forrest

There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others- — Kate Chopin

Big Heart Quotes

If your heart was as big as your mouth you'd be real. - DMX

If your heart was as big as your mouth you'd be real. — DMX

I'm not that big, physically. I'm just big where it counts - I got a big heart! - Big Sean

I'm not that big, physically. I'm just big where it counts - I got a big heart! — Big Sean

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life. — Suze Orman

You are a person of destiny. You are not here by accident. There is no obstacle too big, no dream you can't accomplish. — Joel Osteen

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco

May your heart be light and happy, may your smile be big and wide, and may your pockets always have a coin or two inside! — Irish Proverbs

The small things in life often show a big heart. — Changpeng Zhao

The human heart is bigger than the world. — Carlos Bulosan

Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big. — Erica Jong

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. — Matthew Vaughn

Two Hearts Quotes

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — Socrates

If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience. — Pythagoras

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing. — Helen Keller

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction. — Simone Weil

On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. — Izaak Walton

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous. — Alfred de Vigny

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. — Virginia Woolf

The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride. — Lewis Howard Latimer

Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. — Henri Nouwen

Good Heart Quotes

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist - Francis of Assisi

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist — Francis of Assisi

If shaytan has entered into your heart - evil will look beautiful to you and good will seem tiring and exhausting. — Nouman Ali Khan

The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart. — ASAP Rocky

God is letting me shine, because I've got a good heart. - ASAP Rocky

God is letting me shine, because I've got a good heart. — ASAP Rocky

Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop. — Phife Dawg

I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face. — Abdul Kalam

I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. — Juliette Drouet

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck

Dr. King's policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none. — Stokely Carmichael

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy. — Buddha

Warm Heart Quotes

You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet. — William Booth

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity. — Joseph Stalin

When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart. — Ajahn Brahm

I just think about how saying that you love someone can make your heart feel like some sort of brownie sundae, warm, gooey, sweet and good. — Carrie Jones

Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year. — Dalai Lama

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen

I'm only 19 but my mind is older... When things get for real, my warm heart turns cold. — Prodigy

Cold hearts can find warm words. — Tibetan Proverbs

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. — Vincent Van Gogh

I need a soul mate so that I can be who I am, naked. I want there to be someone who picks up my heavy, bleeding heart and takes it somewhere safe and warm. — Ville Valo

Beautiful Heart Quotes

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself. — Maya Angelou

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart. — Oscar Wilde

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran

We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally. — R. A. Salvatore

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. — Ivan Panin

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. — Audrey Hepburn

Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart. — Hafez

Hearts And Friends Quotes

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt

You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. — Bob Marley

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends. - Hafez

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends. — Hafez

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde

I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life, The day You became my Friend, I have not slept - And even if You drive me from your door, I swear again that we will never be separated - Because You are alive in my heart — Rabia Basri

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. — General Robert E. Lee

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. — Robert E. Lee

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart. — Cesar Chavez

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. — Frederick Buechner

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More Great Hearts Quotes

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. — Sitting Bull

You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests. — Saint John Chrysostom

I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know. — Bill W.

We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination. — Hassan al-Banna

Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson Mccullers

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble. — Sugar Ray Robinson

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. — Pope John Paul II

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts — D.T. Suzuki

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart. — Gordon B. Hinckley

With the beginning of a great & compassionate love, comes the growth of one's heart, and with that, a profound inner change. The way to opening the mind is often first through the heart. And once is the mind & heart are open, so many things become possible. — Irwin Corey

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. — Martin Luther

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes. — George Muller

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. — Steve Jobs

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts. — Thomas Brooks

A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her. — Mother Teresa

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. — Boris Pasternak

You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you've gotta believe. You've gotta believe in the goodness. — Ray Manzarek

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency. — John Owen

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it. — Mary Lou Retton

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness. — Lao Tzu

We are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson Mccullers

Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus. — Therese of Lisieux

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office. — John Boehner

Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the Great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof. — Nathanael Greene

Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. — William Booth

Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything. — Sivananda

Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken. — Yasmin Mogahed

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. — Charles Dickens

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