What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American Historian, Political Leader, Explorer
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
—Wendell Phillips (1811–84) American Abolitionist, Lawyer, Orator
The pain that’s created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don’t begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.
—Russell Simmons (b.1957) American Music Promoter
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.
—German Proverb
If your heart is a rose, then your mouth will speak perfumed words.
—Russian Proverb
Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.
—Unknown
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age; but the heart can.
—Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Philosopher
What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.
—Owen D. Young (1874–1962) American Businessman, Lawyer
The human heart is neither of stone nor wood.
—Japanese Proverb
The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don’t get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.
—John Eliot (b.1971) American Psychologist, Academic
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–81) American Editor, Novelist
There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
—Robert Owen (1771–1858) British Social Reformer, Philanthropist
Each heart is a world.—You find all within yourself that you find without.—To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet
The heart is the first feature of working minds.
—Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American Architect
Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero’s heart.
—Common Proverb
The Divine Spirit does not reside in any except the joyful heart
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.
—Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian
The ear is the road to the heart.
—French Proverb
Our real grave is not in the ground but in men’s hearts.
—Persian Proverb
A man will sacrifice his head to conquer a heart.
—Turkish Proverb
God is closest to those with broken hearts.
—Hebrew Proverb
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
He, who opens his heart for ambition, closes it for the rest.
—Chinese Proverb
No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.
—Common Proverb
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) Irish Poet, Dramatist
The hardest trial of the heart is, whether it can bear a rival’s failure without triumph.
—John Aikin (1747–1822) British Doctor, Writer
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