Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Passion

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Penn, William

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eliot, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Denis Diderot

10.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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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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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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 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.

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

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

37.

It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Lee, Spike

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

Rebecca West

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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

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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

42.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Cicero

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

Eckhart, Meister