Motivational Quotes

Passion

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

- Epicharmus

Best Quotes about Passion

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Denis Diderot

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

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hoffer, Eric

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Cicero

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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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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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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

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

Penn, William

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Eliot, George

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Sue Halpern

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