Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Dorothy L. Sayers

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Fellini, Frederico

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nina Berberova

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Denis Diderot

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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

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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Sue Halpern

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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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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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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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