Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.

Mahatma Gandhi

Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

Mahatma Gandhi

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.

Mahatma Gandhi

If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

John C. Maxwell

To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.

John C. Maxwell

The position does not make you a leader. The title, the promotion, the fancy corner office do not make you a leader. No, it is relationships with people that are the foundation, the very heart of leadership. Have you ever worked for someone you didn't like? It's difficult, isn't it? On the other hand, the leader you will follow anywhere and everywhere is one you know cares about you, and values you. This person has your best interests at heart. It is the leader who comes alongside to help you improve and grow.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

John C. Maxwell

The last decision I made was my health when I had a heart attack when I was 51.

John C. Maxwell

If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.

John C. Maxwell

To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

Johannes Tauler

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

Johannes Tauler

If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

Johannes Tauler

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

John Adams

There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.

John Adams

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

John Adams

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

John Adams

We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.

Joe Orton

Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

James Dean

And my heart just did a flip-flop over that.

William Wordsworth

And much it grieved my heart to thinkWhat Man has made of Man.

Robert Browning

This is a heart the Queen leant on.

Sylvia Hatchell

All I know is that we're going to play with a lot of heart and passion, and we're going to have fun.

All in all they showed a lot of heart in doing what they did.

All I had to do was open my heart and say, 'Show me, God,' and it's always been that way for me.

Eric Kandel

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.

Eric Hoffer

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.