Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Dorothy L. Sayers

Best Quotes about Passion

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Smith, Eugene W.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

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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 makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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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.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Jung, Carl

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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Denis Diderot

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

Cowper, William

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.