Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Passion

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Penn, William

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Jung, Carl

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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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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Cowper, William

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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

Voltaire

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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