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

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

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

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

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

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Fuller, Thomas

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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

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

May, Rollo

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Denis Diderot

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Eliot, George

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Sue Halpern

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean