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

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

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.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Penn, William

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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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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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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Nina Berberova

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Voltaire

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

Oprah Winfrey

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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Fellini, Frederico

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Eckhart, Meister

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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