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

1.

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

2.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

3.

Passion is the trigger of success.

4.

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

Eckhart, Meister

5.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

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

Oprah Winfrey

8.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

9.

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

Byron, Lord

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Sade, Marquis De

14.

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

Hegel, Georg

15.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

16.

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

17.

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

Diderot, Denis

18.

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

Cowper, William

19.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

20.

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

Cicero

21.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

22.

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

Denis Diderot

23.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

24.

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

Penn, William

25.

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

May, Rollo

26.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

27.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

31.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

32.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

33.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

35.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

36.

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

Fellini, Frederico

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

40.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

41.

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

42.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

43.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

44.

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

45.

The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

46.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

47.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

48.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.