Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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

Byron, Lord

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

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Cicero

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

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Kundera, Milan

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

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

Penn, William

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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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

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Denis Diderot

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord