Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Adams, Thomas

Best Quotes about Passion

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Kundera, Milan

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Hegel, Georg

As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Penn, William

To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Barthes, Roland

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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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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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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Brett, George

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Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eliot, George

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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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

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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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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

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero

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

Denis Diderot

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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Sade, Marquis De

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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus