Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Cowper, William

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

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

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

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

May, Rollo

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Eliot, George

10.

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

11.

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

15.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

16.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

17.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

18.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

19.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

20.

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

21.

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

28.

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

Campbell, Joseph

29.

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

Cicero

30.

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

31.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

34.

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

Eckhart, Meister

35.

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

Adams, Thomas

36.

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

Hoffer, Eric

37.

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

38.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

42.

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

Byron, Lord

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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

45.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

46.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

47.

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

48.

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

50.

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