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

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

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

Hegel, Georg

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

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

Sue Halpern

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

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

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.

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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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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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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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Penn, William

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

May, Rollo

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Nina Berberova

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Cowper, William

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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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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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 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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Brett, George