Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Cowper, William

The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

May, Rollo

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

Nina Berberova

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Campbell, Joseph

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea