Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

Cowper, William

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

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Denis Diderot

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

Jung, Carl

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Miller, Henry

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

21.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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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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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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

28.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Eliot, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Penn, William

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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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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

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

Nina Berberova

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

Byron, Lord