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

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

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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.

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham

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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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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 in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Diderot, Denis

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Penn, William

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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