Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Passion

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

May, Rollo

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Cicero

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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

Eliot, George

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

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.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

11.

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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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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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

33.

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

Penn, William

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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

47.

Passion is the trigger of success.

48.

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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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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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.