Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Helvetius, Claude A.

Best Quotes about Passion

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

Merton, Thomas

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Cowper, William

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

May, Rollo

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Cicero

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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