Motivational Quotes

Passion

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Cowper, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Eliot, George

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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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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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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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse 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

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

Nina Berberova

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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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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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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.