Heart Quotes

These 86 quotes on heart come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. — Swami Sivananda
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
Rumi
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. — Mencius
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. — Jane Austen
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. — Albert Camus
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.
Albert Camus
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. — Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. — Gabriel García Márquez
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
Gabriel García Márquez
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. — Muhammad Iqbal
Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Muhammad Iqbal
I went in search of evil and found none; when I looked into my own heart, I found the worst of all was me. — Kabir
I went in search of evil and found none; when I looked into my own heart, I found the worst of all was me.
Kabir
The Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. — Luther Standing Bear
The Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.
Luther Standing Bear
To establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, to secure a destiny for the people, to carry on the lost teachings of the sages, to open peace for all generations to come. — Zhang Zai
To establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, to secure a destiny for the people, to carry on the lost teachings of the sages, to open peace for all generations to come.
Zhang Zai
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
A priceless treasure is easy to find; a heart that truly loves is hard to find. — Bai Juyi
A priceless treasure is easy to find; a heart that truly loves is hard to find.
Bai Juyi
Since ancient times, who has not died? Let my loyal heart shine in the annals of history. — Wen Tianxiang
Since ancient times, who has not died? Let my loyal heart shine in the annals of history.
Wen Tianxiang
Destroy the mosque, destroy the temple, destroy whatever you please — but do not break a human heart, for God dwells there. — Bulleh Shah
Destroy the mosque, destroy the temple, destroy whatever you please — but do not break a human heart, for God dwells there.
Bulleh Shah
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Rainer Maria Rilke
My heart has become capable of every form: a pasture for gazelles, a convent for Christian monks, a temple for idols. — Ibn Arabi
My heart has become capable of every form: a pasture for gazelles, a convent for Christian monks, a temple for idols.
Ibn Arabi
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart. — Rumi
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.
Rumi
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. — Kahlil Gibran
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Kahlil Gibran
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. — Rabindranath Tagore
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
Rabindranath Tagore
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. — Rabindranath Tagore
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
Rabindranath Tagore
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart. — Ramakrishna
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
Ramakrishna
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. — Kahlil Gibran
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
Kahlil Gibran
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. — Nelson Mandela
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. — George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. — Pearl S. Buck
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl S. Buck
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. — Carl Jung
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
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