Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Hoffer, Eric

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Hegel, Georg

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Adams, Thomas

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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

11.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Cowper, William

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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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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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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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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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Retton, Mary Lou

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Penn, William

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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