Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Passion

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Diderot, Denis

11.

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

12.

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

Rebecca West

13.

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

14.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Cicero

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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

18.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

19.

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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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

28.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

29.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

30.

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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

41.

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

May, Rollo

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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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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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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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

49.

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

Smith, Eugene W.