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

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

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Casals, Pablo

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Sue Halpern

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

Nina Berberova

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Eliot, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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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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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Cowper, William

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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

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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 could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Denis Diderot

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De