Words matter. These are the best Heart Quotes from famous people such as Elizabeth I, Emily Dickinson, Sarah Ban Breathnach, George Bernard Shaw, John Greenleaf Whittier, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.
There is a gap between the heart and brain – that is where the soundbox lies. Some sing from their heart; others use their brain.
I don’t know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.
I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
I’ve had my heart broken in a lot of different ways a lot of different times by different people – whether it be a family member, a girlfriend, a friend, just all types of relying on people, making yourself vulnerable to people.
If you believe in something and put it in your mind and heart, it can be realised.
The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one’s conscience and some good intentions in one’s heart.
At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.
I personally believe that if you love someone, and you get your heart broken, and you can learn to love someone else just as deeply as the first, then that is the greatest lesson we can learn on this planet.
What I respect about my dad is he comes forth, and he tells the truth, and he’s a very honorable person. I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.
I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. ‘American Sniper’ has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris’s life.
What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It’s almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries.
We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Sometimes you have to stand up for what’s right, and sometimes that may be ruffling feathers and may be frowned upon by everyone else, but at the end of the day in your heart, knowing you’re on the right side of history and knowing that you did the right thing, good or bad, you have to live with that.
Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
They won’t break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
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.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.
My memories mean a lot to me, and I hold them close to my heart.
Singing from the heart is my only goal.
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.
The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I’d know that I tried.
Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
‘Miss Rumphius’ has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.
I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I’m a little malicioso. There’s no way of hiding that side.
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
At heart, I’m a reconstructive surgeon.
You do have to follow your heart, otherwise you’re living a false life.
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.
A magnetic personality doesn’t necessarily indicate a good heart.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.
Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That’s what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.
If by chance some day you’re not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I’ve said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
