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

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

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.

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

May, Rollo

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Kundera, Milan

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

Nina Berberova

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

Eliot, George

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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 may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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