Motivational Quotes

Passion

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about Passion

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

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

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Nina Berberova

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

Diderot, Denis

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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Cicero

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

Denis Diderot

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Eliot, George

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

Stanley Kunitz

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

May, Rollo