Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Cowper, William

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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 doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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

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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Voltaire

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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 dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.