Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Passion

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.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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

Nina Berberova

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

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Cicero

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

Adams, Thomas

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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Will, George F.

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Eliot, George

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Smith, Eugene W.

31.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Retton, Mary Lou

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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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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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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