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

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

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.

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Stowell, Joseph

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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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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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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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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

Cicero

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Stanley Kunitz

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Denis Diderot

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

28.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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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 our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

40.

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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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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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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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Sade, Marquis De

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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 passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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