“ A half-hearted goal may get you halfway to where you want to go… but I doubt it. It's more likely to get you just as far as the first detour, and off you go in another direction. ”
- Alec Mackenzie- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Angelina's image is of a wild, crazy, femme fatale. But she's not. She's a very nice big hearted girl. It wasn't extraordinary at all that we were together. ”
- Jonny Lee Miller- Copy
- 957
“ A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man. ”
- Martin Delany- Copy
- 2K
“ They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. ”
- Anne Frank- Copy
- 1.6K
“ They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow. ”
- Marian Anderson- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted — we had never been broken-hearted. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 703
“ And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 3.7K
“ If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again. ”
- Sharon Salzberg- Copy
- 1.3K
“ When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion. ”
- Pat Riley- Copy
- 3.3K
“ This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary half-hearted call, or any milk-and-water endeavor, It can only be reached by your supremest call, your supremest effort. It will respond only to the call that is backed up by the whole of you, not part of you; you must be all there in what you are trying to do… ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
- 3.3K
“ There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts… ”
- E.M. Bounds- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! The world is gone for me! If I must live on it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children — for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him — and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish. ”
- Queen Victoria- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 303
“ Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest… ”
- E.M. Bounds- Copy
- 582
“ For God's sake don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print… substitute drunken dog, ragged head, self-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
- 2.3K
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