Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Maxwell

There’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.

John C. Maxwell

People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.

John C. Maxwell

You win people's hearts by helping them grow personally.

The likelihood is that the hole in the heart was of no relevance.

The Lord put Heart and Soul Ministries in my heart and things started to come together.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

James Taylor

The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

James Smith

Moira sacrificed all that she had and all the richness of life that still lay in front of her in order to save just one more person. Moira was killed when the south tower collapsed ... Today, we choose to remember and share the joy Moira brought to all of us, and we vow that she will always live in our hearts.

James Payn

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.

James Patterson

How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?

James Patterson

maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside

James Merrill

The day is breaking someone else's heart.

James McBride

The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's done. I just go to the next thing. I don't complain, I don't go to - I pick my battles very, very judiciously, and I just assume that there's good in the heart of everybody.

James McBride

Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

James McAvoy

The script is the most important thing for me. I'm advised that other things are important too, and they are. The director that you'll be working with is hugely important, and the cast that are with you is really important as well. But, for me, the thing that gets my heart excited and really makes me invested in something or not is just the quality of the script.

James Martineau

Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of our homes, the order and serenity of our minds, the spirit of patience and tender mercy in our hearts. Then will even the merest drudgery of duty cease to humble us, when we transfigure it by the glory of our own spirit.

James Martineau

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

Emily Dickinson

Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

Emily Dickinson

Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you’re lagging, I may remember him!

Emily Dickinson

Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

Emily Dickinson

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

Emanuel Ungaro

A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart.

Ellis Peters

Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

Elliott Smith

The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

Ellen Page

You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard.

Ella Maillart

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

The distinction is subtle but important. Integration represents an outward conformity; reconciliation represents an inward heart condition.

Sathya Baba

A moment of concentrated prayer from heart is enough to melt and move God; hours of shouting do not count.

Lord Byron

A mind at peace with all below, / A heart whose love is innocent!

Clint Hurdle

All the players took to heart the conversations that were held at the end of last season.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.

Edward Teller

On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous.

Edward Dahlberg

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.