Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

- Adams, Thomas

Best Quotes about Passion

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Miedzian, Myriam

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Miller, Henry

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Randy Pausch

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Will, George F.

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Smith, Eugene W.

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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Diderot, Denis

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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

Randy Pausch

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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Eliot, George

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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Robbins, Anthony

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Retton, Mary Lou

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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric