Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Voltaire

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Denis Diderot

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

Nina Berberova

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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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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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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

May, Rollo

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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 believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Penn, William

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

Byron, Lord

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

Eliot, George

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

Casals, Pablo