Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Passion

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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.

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

Adams, Thomas

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

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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 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

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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

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

Cicero