Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jobs

Follow your heart, but check it with your head.

Steve Jobs

Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart.

Steve Earle

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

Steve Coogan

I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live man or a dead woman, I'll be fine. And that, hand on heart, is unlikely to happen.

Stephen Schwartz

Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.

Stephen Schwartz

So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend

Stephen Spender

Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

Stephen Sondheim

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

Stephen Foster

Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away, Gone from the earth to a better land I know, I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.

Mother Teresa

Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.

Mother Teresa

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

Mother Teresa

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

Mother Teresa

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Mother Teresa

Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

Mother Teresa

We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.

Mother Teresa

Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.

Mother Teresa

So many signatures for such a small heart.

Mother Teresa

I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

Mother Teresa

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.

Mother Teresa

A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.

Mother Teresa

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

Mother Teresa

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.

Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is the worst possible place, the most corrupting place, for the human soul. And just as there is no escape from the world, which follows us into the very heart of the desert, so the actor cannot escape the theatre. And the actor who is a dreamer need not. All of us can only strive to remain uncontaminated. In the world we must be unworldly, in the theatre the actor must be untheatrical.

Mira Nair

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

Mike Krzyzewski

Don't let a single game break your heart.

Pearl S. Buck

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

Pearl S. Buck

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

Pearl S. Buck

the heart never grows old.

Pearl S. Buck

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Paula McLain

But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were the very heart of his universe, I couldn't help but melt into him.

Paula McLain

You are everything good and straight and fine and true—and I see that so clearly now, in the way you’ve carried yourself and listened to your own heart. You’ve changed me more than you know, and will always be a part of everything I am. That’s one thing I’ve learned from this. No one you love is ever truly lost.

Peter Straub

You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.