Motivational Quotes

Passion

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Passion

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Jung, Carl

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Sue Halpern

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Herzen, Alexander

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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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

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

Eliot, George

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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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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Lee, Spike

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm