Motivational Quotes

Passion

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Cicero

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

Nina Berberova

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Johnson, Samuel

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Fuller, Thomas

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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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

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Lee, Spike

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Jung, Carl

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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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

40.

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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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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

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

Penn, William

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

Eliot, George

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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