Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Helvetius, Claude A.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

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

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Denis Diderot

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Adams, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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I had learnt to seek intensityàmore of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Penn, William

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

Campbell, Joseph

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