Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Denis Diderot

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Cicero

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

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Adams, Thomas

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

12.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

13.

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

14.

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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

16.

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

Sue Halpern

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

Penn, William

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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

19.

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

Stanley Kunitz

20.

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

21.

You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

Randy Pausch

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

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

26.

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

Nina Berberova

27.

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

28.

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

29.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

30.

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

Oprah Winfrey

31.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

32.

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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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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Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

Saying

35.

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

Cowper, William

36.

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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

38.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

43.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

44.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

45.

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

Rebecca West

46.

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Sade, Marquis De

47.

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

49.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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