Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Passion

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Cowper, William

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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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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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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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nina Berberova

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

Denis Diderot

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Eliot, George

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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