Heart Quotes

"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child"

"If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression"

Earl Warren, Judge

"Religion's in the heart, not in the knees"

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart"

St. Jerome, Saint

"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart"

Buddha, Leader

"My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today"

Richard Adams, Clergyman

"Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart"

Robert South, Clergyman

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you"

Paramahansa Yogananda, Leader

"He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart"

Washington Irving, Writer

"The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory"

Chaim Potok, Author

"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart"

Hal Borland, Author

"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world"

Betty Grable, Actress

"Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself"

William Dean Howells, Author

"Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart"

William Dean Howells, Author

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"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"

Alice Meynell, Poet

"Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe"

Anne Bronte, Novelist

"Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact"

Uwe Boll, Director

"When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today"

Mika Waltari, Author

"I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'"

Kanye West, Musician

"Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes"

Mika Waltari, Author

"Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint"

Sid Waddell, Entertainer

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