Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Byron, Lord

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Eliot, George

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

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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

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

Cicero

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Robert Sternberg

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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