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

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

Eckhart, Meister

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Nina Berberova

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

Stanley Kunitz

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Cowper, William

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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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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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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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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Denis Diderot

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Eliot, George

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

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

Cicero

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De