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

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

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

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

Passion is the trigger of success.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 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 doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Eliot, George

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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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Nina Berberova

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Byron, Lord

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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 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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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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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