Last Updated: October 19, 2022 by Quote.cc Team
A heart is the core of human existence. A soul feels, emotes, and expresses. With a seat, you can perceive, understand, and judge. Our heart also comprises our strengths and vulnerabilities, our character and beliefs. It allows us to experience and connect. In this life, it doesn’t matter who you are, what you have achieved, or where you’re going, just as long as you live from your heart.
Here are 200 Heart quotes that will inspire you to follow your heart. Here are the best heart quotes to read from famous people that will surely inspire you. They say to follow your heart, and everything will fall into place, so listen to your emotions and feelings. Making the right decisions in life by following your heart will make you feel good and happy.
Quotes About the Heart
Top 10 Heart Quotes
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung
“Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, your heart knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.” – Henry Winkler
“You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.” – George Michael
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to stay.” – Paulo Coelho
“Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Deep in every heart slumbers a dream, and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess.” – Christian Dior
“You are not a bad person just because you were at fault this once. Grow from your faults and strive to be a better person. Being a good person isn’t a destination, it’s something we pursue all the time. Sometimes, we will fail but it’s alright.” – Nesta Jojoe Erskine
“When you are standing in [a] forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.” – Bhumibol Adulyadej
“A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
Short Heart Quotes
“You are not rich until you have a rich heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Be tough minded but tenderhearted.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” – Plato
“Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.” – H. G. Wells
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
“When your heart speaks, take good notes.” – Judith Campbell
“You change your life by changing your heart.” – Max Lucado
“You cannot be a big person with a small heart.” – T D Jakes
Funny Heart Quotes
“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
“True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.” – Kevin Gates
“To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it.” – Timothy Childers
“This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him—for breaking my heart twice.” – James Patterson
“There’s more to a man than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you’ll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.” – Aaron Lauritsen
“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.” – Robert Frost
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people.” – John Holmes
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” – Jane Austen
“There is an ocean of infinite wisdom in you. Put your hand on your heart and feel it beating.” – Jennifer Williamson
Heart Quotes Love
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” – Lao Tzu
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” – Dalai Lama XIV
“Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?” – Leo Buscaglia
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Richard Puz
“Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but safe isn’t one of them.” – Mandy Hale
“Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.” – DB Harrop
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi
“If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” – Leo Tolstoy
“One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you…then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.” – Aubrey Drake Graham
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis
“So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
“Take into account that great love & great achievement involve great risk.” – Dalai Lama
“The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, that uplifts the spirit is spirituality. The knowledge which gives you a broad vision and a big heart is spirituality.” – Sri Ravi Shankar
“The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner
“I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.” – Robert Tizon
Broken Heart Quotes
“What’s broken can be mended, what’s hurt can be healed. No matter how dark it gets, the sun’s going to rise again.” – Meredith Grey
“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream — whatever that dream might be.” – Pearl S. Buck
“The heart will break, but broken live on.” – Lord Byron
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” – Margaret George
“Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.” – Cassandra Clare
“Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” – Miss Piggy
“It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.” – Eric Kripke
“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” – Sara Teasdale
“I’ve been heartbroken. I’ve broken hearts. That’s part of life, and it’s part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.” – Heidi Klum
“I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” – H.C. Paye
“I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.” – Christie Brinkley
“Heaven doesn’t ignore cries of a broken heart.” – Toba Beta
“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.” – J.S.B. Morse
“A broken heart bleeds tears.” – Steve Maraboli
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but I’m hoping into a better shape.” – Charles Dickens
“I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.” – Julia Roberts
“Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?” – Leo Tolstoy
Follow Your Heart Quotes
“Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I’ve learned, that’s the path to happiness.” – Lesley Ann Warren
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
“I’ve learned…. That being kind is more important than being right.”
“It’s worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.” – Al Pacino
“It’s easy to be kind when others treat you well. The challenge is to preserve your loving-kindness when they treat you badly—to preserve goodwill in the face of ill will.” – Rick Hanson
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Good Heart Quotes
“When you have a good heart, kindness becomes a responsibility you take up.” – Ufuoma Apoki
“When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.” – Edwin Booth
“Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world.” – William J. Clinton
“The only downfall of having a good heart is that you’re constantly looking for angels inside of demons. And they wonder why the good know so much pain.” – R.H. Sin
“The essence of any religion is a good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.” – Dalai Lama
“There’s nothing better than meeting somebody with a great soul, and a great spirit and a good heart.” – Mark Wahlberg
“No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.” – Shanina Shaik
“Mad fearlessness is not Courage. The only requirement for Courage is a good heart.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.” – Dalai Lama
“A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.” – William Shakespeare
“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.” – Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” – Nelson Mandela
“Good heart is the best religion; its light is the most powerful light.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
Grateful Heart Quotes
“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.” – James E. Faust
“Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.” – Zig Ziglar
“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.” – Sylvia Plath
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Outer beauty pleases the eye. Inner beauty captivates the heart.” – Mandy Hale
“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.” – James Earl Jones
“One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.” – James Lowell
“Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.” – Sir John Vanbrugh
“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed. There’s so little competition.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that defines us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.” – P.J Palacio
“Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.” – Joe Paterno
“Being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure.” – Bob Marley
“Being a good person doesn’t depend on your religion, your race or your skin color or your culture. It depends on how good is your heart and how good you treat others.” – Marcel Isler
Heavy Heart Quotes
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
“Never stop being a good man because of bad people” – Evelyn Jess
“Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.” – Basil Rathbone
“Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.” – Roy T. Bennett
“My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Look deeply into your soul. You have enough grace and strength to overcome any struggle.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.” – Paulo Coelho
“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
“Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn’t conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened.” – Libbie Fudim
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela
“If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” – Bob Hope
“If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.” – Sharon Salzberg
“If you don’t follow your heart, you might spend the rest of your life wishing you had.” – Brigitte Nicole
“If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.” – Carlos Santana
“If everyone were a good person, it’d obviously be a better world.” – Aaron Paul
“If all hearts were open and all desires known — as they would be if people showed their souls — how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market place!” – Thomas Hardy
“Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.” – Michael Burke
“Go to your bosom; knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know…” – William Shakespeare
“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Follow the tugs that come from the heart. I think that everyone gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going with.” – Victoria Moran
“Don’t judge a person by how important he is or how big he is. Judge a person by the strength of character or size of his heart.” – Glad Munaiseche
“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with those who are reckless with yours.” – Mary Schmich
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Violeta Parra
Beautiful Heart Quotes
“Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.” – Harshit Walia
“The person with most beautiful heart and soul will have also the most beautiful face for me, for my eyes just as a child to the mother, her baby will be the best always.” – Ven Kosta
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“It is not fancy hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should make you beautiful. No, your beauty should come from within you – the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit. This beauty will never disappear, and it is worth very much to God.” – ‘Peter 3:3-4
“I’m convinced we have each been endowed with a beautiful heart. We may not always see it. We may not even believe it. But it’s a gift that came with birth and, every time we act selflessly, it grows a little.” – Steve Goodier
“I think it is beautiful how the moon glows using the sun’s light and the sun never asks for anything in return.” – Mark Twain
“Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside – to have a big heart and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.” – Ellen DeGeneres
“I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.” – Charles de Lint
“I believe in being good to people. I believe in loving with your whole heart. And I believe in being genuine no matter the circumstances.” – Reyna Biddy
“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – Tin Man
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. ” – Charles Dickens
Pure Heart Quotes
“A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.” – J.S.B. Morse
“Angels only care about what you look like on the inside. A pure heart is the vessel that contains a soul’s true beauty.” – Molly Friedenfeld
“The heart is forever making the head its fool.” – François de la Rochefoucauld
“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.” – Leigh Bardugo
“The heart has reasons, which the reason cannot understand.” – Blaise Pascal
“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.” – Jacques Benigne Bossuet
“Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.” – David LaChapelle
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.”
“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” – Mandy Hale
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” – Albert Einstein
“Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
“Beauty doesn’t matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.” – Ann Curry
“Be true to your heart. Put your whole heart and soul into it, and then whatever you do, it will shine through.” – Jamie Brewer
“Be good to people. You will be remembered more for your kindness than any level of success you could possibly attain.” – Mandy Hale
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” – Roy T. Bennett
“At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.” – Amit Ray
Kind Heart Quotes
“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.” – Washington Irving
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” – Blaise Pascal
“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.” – St. Jerome
“The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.” – Audrey Hepburn
“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.” – Audrey Hepburn
“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.” – Audrey Hepburn
“The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Big Heart Quotes
“When somebody else’s happiness makes you happy, it means you are a good human with a big heart.” – Jenni Rivera
“Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.” – Herman Melville
“Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional. It’s a sign that you have a big heart, and that you aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength.” – Brigitte Nicole
“One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons.” – Anthony Douglas
“It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.” – Li Ka-Shing
“A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.” – Anne Lamott
Heart Touching Quotes
“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those.” – Michael Nolan
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green
“The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.” – Nonito Donaire
“The most confused we ever get is when we try to convince our heads of something our hearts know is a lie.” – Karen Moning
“The more you trust your heart, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.” – Gisele Bundchen
“The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.” – Suzy Kassem
“The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.” – Robert Valett
“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.” – Vincent van Gogh
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.” – Benjamin Franklin
Final Words
May these follow-your-heart quotes help you make the correct judgment in life to fulfill your dreams and desires with a good heart. Share these quotes about following your heart with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them.