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

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

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Nina Berberova

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

Sue Halpern

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

Jung, Carl

10.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

11.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

12.

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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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

14.

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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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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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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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

18.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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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

20.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Casals, Pablo

25.

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

Cicero

27.

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

28.

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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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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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

32.

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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Cowper, William

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

Eliot, George

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

May, Rollo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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.

45.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Brown, Rita Mae

47.

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