Motivational Quotes

Passion

The dew of compassion is a tear.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Voltaire

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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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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

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Denis Diderot

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Cicero

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.