Lost Heart Quotes:

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3045, Library of Alexandria

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Sports, Inspirational Courage, Leadership Courage

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

- Mencius

source: Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The works of mencius”, p.198

topic: Positive, Wisdom, Children, Ordinary Man, Lost Heart

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

- Mencius

topic: Dog, Inspiration, Heart, Lost Heart

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

topic: Love, Relationship, Smile, I Ll Miss You, Make You Cry

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

- Washington Irving

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Love And Heartbreak, Purifying

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Song: Punish Me, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998

topic: Love, Life, Break Up, Hurting Him, Back Together

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Broken Heart, Death, Fall, I Missed You, Someone You Miss

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Love, Inspirational, Friendship, Long Relationship, Soulmate Love

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart.

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Love, Crush, Running, Lost Heart, Don't Leave Me

In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces. The great general never lost heart. When things were at their worst, he drafted his famous order which is now in all textbooks of military strategy: "My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!"

- James Keller

topic: Military, War, Heart, Military Strategy, Lost Heart

Spiritual beings do not sweat life's small stuff. They also know that most of what drives us crazy in life is small stuff. The only thing that isn't small stuff is the reason you're on earth in the first place: to find that portion of the world's lost heart that only you can ransom with your love and authentic gifts and then return it, so that all of us can experience Wholeness.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Spiritual, Crazy, Heart, Spiritual Beings, Lost Heart

The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.

- Brendan Behan

topic: Heart, Weather, Mind, Lost Heart

And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Heart, Sea, Voice, Lost Heart, Lilac

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

- Louise Bogan

source: Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill

topic: Heart, Giving, Despair, Lost Heart

Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

- Linda Lingle

topic: Jobs, Heart, School, Lost Heart, Good School