Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Passion

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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

Pascal, Blaise

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Cowper, William

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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

Jung, Carl

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

Byron, Lord

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

Denis Diderot

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

Cicero

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Penn, William

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.