Entrepreneurship is all about taking risks and stepping out of your comfort zone. But it’s also important to have a heart, to be compassionate and empathetic towards others. That’s why we’ve compiled some of our favorite heart quotes, to remind you that being an entrepreneur is about more than just making money.

The best heart quotes

1. To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze. — Virginia Woolf

2. Combinations of people, who should have nothing to say to each other. Yet, with hearts that do not recognize it. — Tracy Rees, Amy Snow

3. And now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended — Stephen King, Wizard And Glass

4. A father’s death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man’s life. — Sigmund Freud

5. You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don’t do… — Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho

6. I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart. — Paulo Coelho

7. Listen to your heart in silence and peace, as through fear you only channel fear. — Raphael Zernoff

8. A heartful mind can always see better than mindless eyes — Munia Khan

9. As time rolls on, however, we discover that duty is a series of compromises; we contemplate life, regard its end, and submit; but it is a submission which makes the heart bleed. — Victor Hugo

10. Soul Sister Evoking all my inner goodness with bastions of time I cradle your heart sisterly into mine… — Muse

11. Inquiries into the heart are not for man. — Samuel Johnson

12. To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. — Napoleon Bonaparte

13. A kind heart is like a slow poison for a warrior. — Sandeep Sharma, Let The Game Begin

14. My heart aches for sisters more than anything it aches for women helping women like flowers ache for spring — Rupi Kaur

15. A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. — Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway

16. Dress the part! Invent and pretend to your heart’s content! Act, sing, and dance while everyone’s watching! The world’s a stage, remember? — Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes

17. Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eye. — Roy Bennett

18. She was a mystery, personal in her journey but social in her seek; you wouldn’t believe the depth in her heart until the day you felt her essence, for the very first time. — Nikki Rowe

19. Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved. — Max Weber

20. I’m gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating. — Stephenie Meyer

21. Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

22. Be a visionary, focused upon your ability to create your desires within your reality. — Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind

23. Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, ‘I know you’re tired, but come. This is the way. — Rumi

24. The soul’s smile is better than the heart’s grin. — Matshona Dhliwayo

25. Your vision is not only in your heart but also in the heart of God — Sunday Adelaja

26. According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I’ve heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual–creative belt of energy. — Melody Beattie

27. Like petals what’s beautiful is often delicate. Take care of the ones you love by not holding them too tightly — Nicola An, The Universe at Heartbeat

28. Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance. — Yves Saint

29. At moments like this, he was lost to himself, lost in the shadows that hid beneath his heart. Rarely did he let himself go and when he did it was only with her. — Tiffany Reisz, The Angel

30. The beating of my heart stops when your gone, my heart herts when your voise is not speaking. This proves my love for you so never leave me. — jordanblue1101

31. Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head. — Theodore Roosevelt

32. Mahatma Gandhi: ‘The only devils in the world are those running in our own hearts. That is where the battle should be fought. — Robin S. Sharma

33. Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues. — Rumi

34. My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ. — Vladimir Nabokov

35. A healing heart has no time frame. — Nikki Rowe

36. You are my star in the days of darkness — and light up my heart at all times.

37. I give thanks to God for having in Chris [her husband] a companion, a true friend, and a good heart. — Selena Quintanilla

38. Lips may lie, but the heart always tells the truth. — Matshona Dhliwayo

39. When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that? — Michael Marshall Smith, Stories: All–New Tales

40. The For–itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In–itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.–Jean — Paul Sartre

41. Unlike many other journeys, when it comes to finding self and matters of the heart you’ll swiftly find yourself lost if you follow someone else’s — Rasheed Ogunlaru

42. A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had. — Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

43. If you have her mind, you have her for a moment; if you have her heart, you have her for a while; if you have her soul, you have her for a lifetime. — Matshona Dhliwayo

44. And it only hurts when I’m breathing My heart only breaks when it’s beating My dreams only die when I’m dreaming So, I hold my breath––to forget — Shania Twain, Shania Twain–Up!

45. Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly. — Taylor Swift

46. To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe. — Omar Khayyam

47. Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. — Paulo Coelho

48. An inspiration–a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought–could alone give health to the heart. — Richard Jefferies

49. ‘follow the sincerity of your heart, it will always lead you on the right path” Cinderella in Focus: Cindy’s Secret’ — hlbalcomb

50. Whoever has Heart’s doors wide open, could see the Sun itself in every atom. — Rumi

Conclusion

I hope these heart quotes have inspired you to take a closer look at the beauty of the human heart and how it can be used to show love, courage and strength. The heart is a powerful symbol of life, and its power should never be underestimated.