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

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

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.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

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

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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

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

Diderot, Denis

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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 dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.