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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nina Berberova

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

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

Robert Sternberg

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

Saying

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

Penn, William

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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.

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

May, Rollo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Cicero

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Cowper, William

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Byron, Lord

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

Adams, Thomas

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis