Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Dorothy L. Sayers

Best Quotes about Passion

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

May, Rollo

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

Cowper, William

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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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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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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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

27.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

33.

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Denis Diderot

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord