Motivational Quotes

Passion

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

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

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero

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

Sue Halpern

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Adams, Thomas

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Diderot, Denis

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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

Merton, Thomas

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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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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

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

Cowper, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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 is the trigger of success.

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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