Motivational Quotes

Passion

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

- Epicharmus

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Cicero

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Rebecca West

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Sue Halpern

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

Denis Diderot

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

Eliot, George

16.

You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Randy Pausch

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti