Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Passion

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Adams, Thomas

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Hoffer, Eric

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Miedzian, Myriam

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Randy Pausch

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

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

33.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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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

42.

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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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

Eliot, George

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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