Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Denis Diderot

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

Rebecca West

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Cicero

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Nina Berberova

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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