Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Passion

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

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Smith, Eugene W.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Sade, Marquis De

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Sue Halpern

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

Penn, William

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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I had learnt to seek intensityàmore of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova

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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Cicero

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

Jung, Carl

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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