Great Hearts Quotes:

Great heart will not be denied.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.824, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Heart, Great Hearts, Denied

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Positive, Heart, Law Of Attraction, Incessantly, Great Events

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

topic: Love, Life, Determination, Great Marriage, Inspirational Children

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Physical Beauty, Long Relationship

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

- John Bunyan

topic: Prayer, Heart, Worship, Prayer Changes Things, Inspirational Prayer

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

- Zelda Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Positive, Romantic, Inspirational Romance, Matters Of The Heart

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation, Live For Yourself, Soft Heart

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Spiritual, Joyful Heart, Spiritual Partnership

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Relationship, Honesty, Yoga, New Friendship, Intellectual Honesty

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

- Robert Frost

topic: Kindness, Heart, Compassion, Generous Heart, Tender Hearts

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.

- Rumi

topic: Spiritual, Wisdom, Heart, Sufi Mystic, Polished

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

source: Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Chapter xxxiii, 1828.

topic: Heart, Character, Compassion, Head And Heart, Good Heart

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Doe, Open Heart, Love And Lost

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely.

- Walt Disney

topic: Spiritual, Heart, Guides, Discovery And Travel, Close To My Heart

Things must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

topic: Heart, Great Feelings, Physical Beauty, Say I Love You, Long Relationship

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

- Washington Irving

source: Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Happiness, Smile, Keep Smiling, Social Good

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

- Antonio Porchia

source: Antonio Porchia (2006). “Voces reunidas”, Pre Textos Ed

topic: Broken Heart, Wise, Appreciation, Full Hearts, Empty Heart

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Heart, Thinking, Soul, Heart To Heart, Great Hearts

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

- Jules Michelet

source: Jules Michelet (1847). “History of France: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time”, p.169

topic: Heart, Glory, Goodness, Great Hearts

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Wisdom, Philosophical, Heart, Great Hearts

Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others." —Cornflower

- Brian Jacques

topic: Heart, Compassion, Sometimes, Redwall, Great Hearts

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.13

topic: Heart, Mind, Sailor, Great Minds, Great Hearts

True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.

- Elias Lyman Magoon

source: Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.219

topic: Heart, Humanity, Utterance, Offspring, Great Hearts

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Heart, Trials, Trouble, Spades, Great Hearts

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

source: Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.140, House of Stratus

topic: Heart, Brain, Glimpse, Great Hearts

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Heart, Path, Action, Great Hearts

Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.

- Michael Franti

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Song, Heart, Laughing, Great Hearts

I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.

- Alberto Salazar

source: Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

topic: Wise, Stress, Heart, Clogging, Arteries

A Great voice has fallen silent. A great heart has stopped.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Great Hearts, Great Voice

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

- Philip James Bailey

topic: Sympathy, Heart, Men, Rights And Wrongs, Great Hearts

To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.

- Melvil Dewey

topic: Strong, Heart, Greatness, Strong Hands, Clear Head

Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.

- Philibert Joseph Roux

topic: Spring, Heart, Tears, Great Hearts

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

- Robert Browning

topic: Friendship, Heart, Eye, Good Friendship, Great Hearts

And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He is forever doing good; from loving all, and living for all; from knowing that if not all, yet millions on millions are grateful to Him, and will be forever.

- Charles Kingsley

topic: Spring, Grateful, Heart, Great Hearts

I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

source: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.601, Delphi Classics

topic: Pain, Heart, Cities, Great Hearts

God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die.

- J. G. Holland

source: J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.89

topic: Time, Strong, Heart, Strong Mind, True Faith

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

topic: Life, Happy, Education, Great Hearts

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Struggle, Heart, Ideas, Great Hearts

Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan (2005). “The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.261, New Leaf Publishing Group

topic: Strong, Heart, Men, Pilgrims Progress, Great Hearts

We're going to show great heart. DACA is a very, very difficult subjects, one of the most difficult. You have these incredible kids in many cases, not in all cases, in some of the cases they are gang members and drug dealers, too. But you have some absolutely incredible kids, I would say mostly. They were brought here in such a way, it's a very, very tough subject.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Heart, Kids, Gang Members, Difficult Subjects, Great Hearts

You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.

- Alison Croggon

topic: Pain, Heart, Suffering, Great Hearts

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

- Jean Rostand

topic: Heart, Power, Humanity, Great Minds, Great Hearts

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

- James Russell Lowell

source: James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

topic: Patience, Passion, Heart, Being Patience, Great Hearts

You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

source: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.1667, Ageless Reads

topic: Loyalty, Hurt, Heart, Love And Loyalty, Great Hearts

You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

- Saint John Chrysostom

topic: Christian, Prayer, Home, Exclamation, Great Hearts

Everyone remembers Stuart Pearce as a determined, aggressive player, who played with great heart and enthusiasm that gave him a great career in the game.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Heart, Player, Games, Great Hearts

The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

- D. H. Lawrence

source: D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8485, Delphi Classics

topic: Running, Heart, Moon, Saturn, Great Hearts