Top 100 Quotes About Great Hearts
#2. 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
#3. The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.
Rabindranath Tagore
#4. 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
#5. The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this is genetic, of course, but I think it is in part that they worry so for us, care so much.
Edward Albee
#6. God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
J.G. Holland
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.
Vasily Grossman
#10. Great minds rise above problems.
Great hearts rise above pain.
Great souls rise above temptations.
Great individuals rise above themselves and the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Heinrich Heine
#13. Antony and Cleopatra: "what love, what accomplishments, what repetitions of natural affections passed between them is not for vulgar minds to imagine, none but so great hearts know them.
James Shapiro
#14. Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows, who never weep for the sorrows of others very seldom have any of their own. Great hearts could be made only by great troubles.
Charles Spurgeon
#15. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#17. Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
James Russell Lowell
#18. Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.
Jules Michelet
#19. Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts.
Amit Ray
#20. The hearts of the great can be changed.
Homer
#21. The thing about people though, I think, is that our hearts tend to do a great job holding on to the horrible stuff and a horrible job holding on to the good. Or at least we're like that until we learn how to not be like that.
Kevin Breel
#22. The ancient Egyptians believed the god Anubis met each of us on the other side, and that he stood before a great scale on which our hearts were set. There each was weighed, tested, for its worth.
Was this the heart I wanted measured?
Victor LaValle
#23. A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are.
Donna Tartt
#24. So slowly the hot elephant hearts
grow full of desire,
and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
hiding their fire.
D.H. Lawrence
#26. We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination.
Hassan Al-Banna
#27. Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.
Dalai Lama
#28. The Great Spirit is everywhere; he hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.
Black Elk
#29. The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#30. In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men
genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
Thomas Carlyle
#31. Our hearts must grow resolute, our courage more valiant, our spirits must be great, though our strength grows less.
Maggie Stiefvater
#32. Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#33. The great writer evokes the words
that buried within hearts of readers.
Toba Beta
#34. Love is the great truth we all know in our hearts and must eventually recognize.
Laurence Overmire
#35. Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you - it should.
Ezra Taft Benson
#36. Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.
Banana Yoshimoto
#37. That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.
Ricky Skaggs
#38. We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Angelina Grimke
#39. Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
James Russell Lowell
#40. When one says to the great Thinker:
"Here is one of thy thoughts: I am thinking it now!" that is a prayer
a word to the big heart from one of its own little hearts.
Look, there is another!
George MacDonald
#41. The great battle of parenting is not the battle of behavior; it's the battle for what kind of awe will rule children's hearts.
Paul David Tripp
#42. We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
Luc De Clapiers
#44. Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.
Janet Morris
#45. Mankind is a great, an immense family ... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
Pope John XXIII
#46. It is of great significance if there is a person who truly prays in a family. Prayer attracts God's Grace and all the members of the family feel it, even those whose hearts have grown cold. Pray always.
Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
#47. Think what great love Christ has showed unto us, and how little we have deserved, and this will make our hearts to melt and be as pliable as wax before the sun.
Richard Sibbes
#48. The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#49. O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#50. The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
Timothy Keller
#51. My time on TV has been awesome; between 'Party Of Five' and 'Ghost Whisperer,' I've been severely lucky in great long runs on TV series that were attached to the heart and got into the audiences' hearts.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#52. All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands.
Tom Regan
#53. The great cowboys are the ones with the biggest hearts.
Ty Murray
#54. Mahoney: "Thirty-seven seconds. Great, well done; now we wait."
Mr. Magorium: "No, we breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. our hearts beat, our minds create, our souls ingest. Thirty-seven seconds well used is a lifetime.
Suzanne Weyn
#55. We left the way one leaves a cherished but impossible love: our hearts heavy with regret but beating with great hope.
Mirta Ojito
#56. Do not worry about anything, but pray and ask God for everything you need, always giving thanks. And God's peace, which is so great we cannot understand it, will keep your hearts and minds in Jesus Christ.
Anonymous
#57. No matter how great the power is that the Holy Spirit releases through a prophet, we are to focus our hearts and attention first on loving, worshiping, and obeying Jesus.
Mike Bickle
#58. In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.
John Calvin
#59. Enlightenment, the great mysterious state of mind, is contentment, or freedom from suffering. How then do we measure happiness? We measure it in smiles, in the openness of our hearts, in generosity, in gratitude and compassion towards others, and in the steadiness of our contentment.
Andrew Furst
#60. Great treasures bring out great greed in the hearts of men and great greed has been the downfall of many nations. - from Opoponax Dreams
Genieve Dawkins
#61. A truly great and enduring vision will extend beyond the leadership season of any one individual and be carried in the hearts and minds of those to whom it has been entrusted.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#62. The early seasons of 'The Simpsons' had a great deal of heart. That's what I'm trying to pull from, the kind of stuff that goes straight to kids' hearts. When they're watching, they don't necessarily know why they love something.
Fred Seibert
#63. Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
Randall Wallace
#64. I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be great if these ideas actually made an impact?' So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world ... It's peculiar.
Alan Moore
#65. We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.
John Eldredge
#67. Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk
#68. A Great Man Has Two Hearts.
One Bleeds And The Other Forbears.
Kahlil Gibran
#69. Can we allow our hearts to treat our people as members of your great family.
Khem Veasna
#70. Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.
Parker J. Palmer
#71. The realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.
Radclyffe Hall
#72. Gods are great," said Atsula, slowly, as if she were imparting a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return ...
Neil Gaiman
#73. The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.
Theodore Parker
#74. The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.
Oswald Chambers
#75. How dangerous it is for our salvation, how unworthy of God and of ourselves, how pernicious even for the peace of our hearts, to want always to stay where we are! Our whole life was only given us to advance us by great strides toward our heavenly country.
Francois Fenelon
#76. Inspiration doesn't lie on the sleeves of great leaders, but it is instead hidden in the hearts of the simple souls who seldom show the potential they carry with them.
Sanhita Baruah
#77. But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#78. Playing a Disney princess is the most amazing, unbelievable thing and on the other, it's completely terrifying. I would say it's a cocktail of every sort of emotion. Princesses are great role models, they teach you about grief loss and have big hearts.
Lily James
#79. The humble histories of hearts cannot be brushed aside forever by the great events of nations.
Milan Kundera
#80. There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#81. In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#82. Have the colored people done anything to justify the prejudice against them that does exist in the hearts of so many white persons and, generally, of one great political party in this country? Have they done anything to justify it? No, sir.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
#83. For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.
George MacDonald
#84. The faithfulness of the Lord is so great that no mind can comprehend it, no hand can fold it, no mouth can describe it and no experience can compete with it. All that our hearts will need, His hands will provide!
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.
Thomas Goodwin
#86. For true love joins the hearts of two persons with so great a feeling of delight that they cannot desire to embrace anybody else; on the contrary they take care to avoid the solaces of everybody else as though they were horrible things, and they keep themselves for each other.
Andreas Capellanus
#87. Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.
Nelson Mandela
#88. Are we going to be stupid?" she whispered.
"Define stupid."
"Anything that involves either one of us exposing our favorite body parts." Or their hearts ...
"I want to hear about your favorite body part," he said. "In great detail.
Jill Shalvis
#89. There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.
Jose Mujica
#90. What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.
Oliver DeMille
#91. Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.
Dalai Lama
#92. Great leaders are those who trust their gut. They are those who understand the art before the science. They win hearts before minds. They are the ones who start with WHY.
Simon Sinek
#93. I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.
Saladin
#94. We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
Luc De Clapiers
#95. But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.
Libba Bray
#96. As Razam so aptly demonstrates, a new kind of traveler is emerging-one that embarks into the mysterious and uncharted domain within, where they aim to conquer their own hearts. Written in the tradition of a great adventure narrative, Aya Awakenings is a timely story for a new emerging era.
Yossi Ghinsberg
#97. We feel happy when we accomplish something great, and our hearts filled with satisfaction about what we achieved
Abdulkareem Bkar
#98. On Power:
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller
#99. In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#100. Thus the great wind, the afflatus, gave breath and turbulence to all life; and inspiration clung to the minds and hearts of men.
Richard Beckham II
