Quotes about Heart

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People's answers to these give me great insight into someone's heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about?

If you want to win over another person, first win his heart, and the rest of him is likely to follow.

Charles Spurgeon: "God is too good to be unkind. He is too wise to be confused. If I cannot trace His hand, I can always trust His heart.

1. Experience: People who have been down the road of life and understand it. 2. Heart for God: People who place God first and uphold His values. 3. Objectivity: People who see the pros and cons of the issues. 4. Love for people: People who love others and value them more than things. 5. Complementary gifts: People who bring diverse gifts to the relationship. 6. Loyalty to the leader: People who truly love and are concerned for the leader. The Maxwell Leadership Bible

I believed that if you have the heart to make a difference, there is always an answer, but if you have a heart of indifference, there is never an answer.

Psychologist William James said, That which holds our attention determines our action. In other words, your behavior follows your attitude. The two cannot be separated. As author LeRoy Eims says, How can you know what is in your heart? Look at your behavior.

You are nothing unless it comes from your heart. Passion, caring, really looking to create excellence. If you perform functions only and go to work only to do processes, then you are effectively retired. And it scares me—most people I see, by age twenty-eight are retired.

THE HEART OF LEADERSHIP IS BASED ON SERVING OTHERS, NOT OURSELVES.

[The Prayer of Mary] My Faithful Lord and Master, I boldly request that You speak to these dear servants of Yours. Ask big things of them. Make them uncomfortable. Stretch them in ways that they have no idea You can. And give them the will, the heart, and the faith to say a wholehearted yes to You whenever You ask. May their obedience change not only them, but the world. Amen.

The Inner Voice: Vision starts within. Do you know your life's mission? What stirs your heart? What do you dream about? If what you're pursuing in life doesn't come from a desire within—from the very depths of who you are and what you believe—you will not be able to accomplish it.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.