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

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

Diderot, Denis

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.

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

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 the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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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

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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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

Denis Diderot

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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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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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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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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

Jung, Carl

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

35.

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

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Penn, William

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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 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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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