Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

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

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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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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.

Diderot, Denis

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sue Halpern

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Penn, William

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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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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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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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

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eliot, George

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I had learnt to seek intensityàmore of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova