Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Sue Halpern

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

Cowper, William

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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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Jung, Carl

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Robbins, Anthony

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph