Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Adams, Thomas

Best Quotes about Passion

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Johnson, Samuel

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Rebecca West

Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Diderot, Denis

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The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

Stainback, Arthur H.

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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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

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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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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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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 genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

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