Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Passion

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Adams, Thomas

The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Denis Diderot

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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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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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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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

May, Rollo

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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

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

Eliot, George

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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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