Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

Victor Hugo

There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.

Victor Hugo

The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.

Victor Hugo

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

Victor Hugo

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

Victor Hugo

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

Vernor Vinge

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

Vernon Howard

All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.

Veronica Roth

Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

Veronica Roth

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

Stephen Covey

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.

Stephen Covey

Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.

Stephen Covey

If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.

Stephen Covey

The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.

Stephen Covey

Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.

Stephen Covey

Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.

Stephen Covey

Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.

Stephen Covey

At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations fail to draw out the greatest talent, ingenuity, and creativity of their people and never become truly great, enduring organisations. It stems from an incomplete paradigm of who we are - our fundamental view of human nature. The fundamental reality is, human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four-dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

Stephanie Laurens

Love simply is - it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it to your heart or refuse it, but there's no other option.

Stephanie Laurens

My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.

Vanessa Redgrave

You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.

Vanessa Paradis

If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

Vanna Bonta

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

Vanna Bonta

Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn.

Vanna Bonta

Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

Vanna Bonta

The only sins are violations of Love.

Vanna Bonta

How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?

Vanna Bonta

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

Vanna Bonta

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

Vanna Bonta

The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

Vachel Lindsay

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

Vaclav Havel

Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the World or observation of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.

Vaclav Havel

Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy... This is the only natural economy, the only kind that makes sense, the only one that can lead to prosperity, because it is the only one that reflects the nature of life itself.