Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Dirksen, Everett M.

Best Quotes about Passion

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.

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

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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Cowper, William

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Hoffer, Eric

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

May, Rollo

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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