Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Denis Diderot

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Cowper, William

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

Nina Berberova

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

Eliot, George

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Cicero

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

May, Rollo

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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

Saying

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Diderot, Denis

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