Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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 the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

Randy Pausch

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Nina Berberova

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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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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Cowper, William

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.