Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hegel, Georg

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Randy Pausch

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

Cicero

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Cowper, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Will, George F.

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

May, Rollo

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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Eliot, George

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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

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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