Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

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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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Adams, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Byron, Lord

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Cicero