Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Passion

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Sue Halpern

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

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Miedzian, Myriam

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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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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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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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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 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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Adams, Thomas

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Denis Diderot

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.