Heart Quotes

At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.

~ Chip Conley

A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.

~ John T. Chambers

A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

~ Lee Haney

If you're at high risk or are trying to reverse heart disease or prevent the recurrence of cancer, you probably need to make bigger changes in diet and lifestyle than someone who just wants to lose a few pounds and is otherwise healthy. If you just want to lower your cholesterol, weight or blood pressure, begin by making moderate changes.

~ Dean Ornish

If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.

~ Laila Ali

I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have since come to learn that it is an animal-based diet that is responsible for the overwhelming majority of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and all kinds of other problems.

~ Steve-O

Small changes in diet don't have much effect on preventing coronary heart disease and cancer. But bigger changes in diet and lifestyle may prevent heart attacks in almost everyone.

~ Dean Ornish

The myriad of serious health risks resulting from poor diet include high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and even sleep apnea.

~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

A significant number of research studies have documented that heart disease is easily and almost completely preventable through a diet rich in plant produce and lower in processed foods and animal products.

~ Joel Fuhrman

If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.

~ Joel Fuhrman

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

~ Ingrid Newkirk

Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

~ Ingrid Newkirk

The best diet for overall health, and specifically for heart, brain, and cancer risk reduction, is a diet that's aggressively low in carbohydrates with an abundance of healthful fat, and this is the central theme of 'Grain Brain.'

~ David Perlmutter

At one point, I even thought, 'Oh, I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

~ Jenna Ushkowitz

Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.

~ Kenneth H. Cooper

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

~ Neal Barnard

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

~ Suze Orman

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

~ Joel Osteen

At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent.

~ Nick Harkaway

If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?

~ Timothy Murphy

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

~ Robert Jarvik

As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.

~ Robert Jarvik

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

~ Rumi

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

~ John Grierson

Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.

~ Vinoba Bhave

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.

~ Mercy Otis Warren

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.

~ Bethany Hamilton

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

~ Joe Torre

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

~ Robert Falcon Scott

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

~ William Shakespeare

The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.

~ Hill Harper

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

~ Ginnifer Goodwin

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

~ Patrick Campbell

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

~ H. L. Mencken

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

~ Rihanna

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.

~ Rupert Murdoch