Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Passion

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Jung, Carl

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Hegel, Georg

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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Nina Berberova

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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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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.

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Diderot, Denis

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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero

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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Stanley Kunitz

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I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Retton, Mary Lou

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De