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Wholeheartedness is about complete sincerity and commitment

• Wholehearted: having or showing no doubt or uncertainty about doing something, supporting someone, etc. Merriam Webster
• Wholehearted: Showing or characterized by complete sincerity and commitment.  Oxford Dictionary
• Wholehearted: Fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, earnest. Dictionary.com
• Wholehearted: Marked by unconditional commitment, unstinting devotion, or unreserved enthusiasm.  The American Heritage Dictionary
• Commitment, Passion,  Enthusiasm,  Immerse yourself in what you do,  Be fully alive,  Vitality,  Determination,  Dedication,  Devotion,  Do what you love

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Wholeheartedness is to be total in what you do, and it brings success

• The secret of success is to be total. If you are going to do something, really do it. Do not second- guess yourself, let guilt undermine your joy, or wonder if you should be somewhere else. Either do it with a whole heart or do not do it. Be total. Alan Cohen
• Future superstars don’t get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve. John Eliot
• Immerse yourself in what you do

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Wholeheartedness is being true to yourself and your inner forces

• A man is alive when he is wholehearted, true to himself, true to his own inner forces, and able to act freely according to the nature of the situations he is in.  To be happy, and to be alive in this sense, are almost the same. Of course, a man who is alive is not always happy in the sense of feeling pleasant; experiences of joy are balanced by experiences of sorrow. But the experiences are all deeply felt; and above all, the man is whole and conscious of being real…  Christopher Alexander
• Integrity,  Be who you are

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Wholeheartedness is about a direction; not a destination

• I now see that cultivating a Wholehearted life is not like trying to reach a destination. It’s like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really arrive, but we certainly know that we’re heading in the right direction. Brené Brown

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Wholeheartedness is allowing yourself be vulnerable even if its means facing emotional risk

• There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough. Brené Brown
• I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness. Brené Brown
• Vulnerability,  Risk taking

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Wholeheartedness is about enthusiasm and finding meaning in what you do

• One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one’s life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.   Hannah Senesh  
• Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. David Seabury
• Enthusiasm,  Meaning

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Wholeheartedness brings happiness

• Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. H. Sheldon
• Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness. Saint Augustine
• Happiness

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Wholeheartedness is sustaining and energising

• The antidote to exhaustion isn’t rest. It’s wholeheartedness. David Whyte
• The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busyness. There’s a central core of wholeheartedness totally missing from what you’re doing. Brother David Steindl-Rast
• Sustainability,  Energy management

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Wherever you, go with all your heart

• Wherever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius
• Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. Norman Vincent Peale
• Passion

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Throw your whole heart into living life fully …

• Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life. Brian Tracy
• Being fully alive

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… living each moment deeply and wholeheartedly

• The day is ending, our life is one day shorter. Let us look carefully at what we have done. Let us practice diligently, putting our whole heart into the path. Let us live deeply each moment in freedom, so time does not slip away meaninglessly.  Thich Nhat Hanh
• Live in the present

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Say a wholehearted “yes” to life

• When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is. Tara Brach
• Say yes to life

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Follow your purpose wholeheartedly

• Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it. Buddha
• Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do. Jennifer Aniston
• Purpose

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Pursue what catches your heart

• There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart…pursue those. Michael Nolan
• We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. John Ruskin

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Do what you love, wholeheartedly

• One of your great responsibilities in life is for you to decide for yourself what you really love to do and then to throw your whole heart into doing that special thing very, very well. Brian Tracy
• Do what you love

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Do the work that is close to your heart …

• When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. Michael Bridge
• The key is to trust your heart to move where your talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul. Al Sacharov
• Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Meryl Streep
• Work

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… and then put your whole heart into it

• Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition. Elbert Hubbard

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When something is necessary, do it wholeheartedly

• What you can’t get out of, get into wholeheartedly. Mignon McLaughlin
• When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it. Thomas Paine
• You do have a choice. You don’t have to want to do the task, nor do you have to love it. But if you prefer it to the consequences of not doing it, you can decide to commit to it wholeheartedly. Neil Fiore

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Perform each action wholeheartedly, without dwelling on the outcome

• Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?  Brenda Shoshanna
• Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your heart. Bible (Ecclesiastes 9:10)
• Let go of attachment to result

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Take care of others wholeheartedly

• Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let’s take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion. The Dalai Lama
• Caring

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Serve wholeheartedly

• To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. Pearl S. Buck
• Service

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Love wholeheartedly

• When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive. William Barclay
• To love with our whole hearts, even though there’s no guarantee. And that’s really hard. Brené Brown
• Love

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Greet wholeheartedly

• Hello, Do not greet anybody when the heart is filled with anger or distrust. Have, instead, a pure hollow from which a whole hearted Hello emanates. Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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Listen and respond wholeheartedly

• Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other. Alex Noble
• Listening

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Give wholeheartedly

• The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart. Annie Dillard
• Giving,  Generosity

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Weep and laugh wholeheartedly

• Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either. Golda Meir
• Tears,  Laughter

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Don’t set your whole heart on material things

• Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Materialism

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• Isn’t it time to turn your heart into a temple of fire? Rumi
• Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Wholeheartedness is a precious gift, but noone can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably. It’s like someone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you don’t know what to do. It humbles you.  It opens your heart.  Pema Chodron

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