Heart Quotes

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet"

Plato, Philosopher

"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"A noble heart will always capitulate to reason"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?"

Confucius, Philosopher

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"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, Soldier

"If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

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