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

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

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

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

10.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

12.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

14.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

15.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

17.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

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

Sue Halpern

19.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

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

Fellini, Frederico

21.

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

Eckhart, Meister

22.

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

23.

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

Denis Diderot

24.

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

May, Rollo

25.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

26.

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

Diderot, Denis

27.

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

28.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

29.

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

Penn, William

30.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

31.

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

32.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

33.

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

Casals, Pablo

34.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

35.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

36.

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

37.

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

38.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

39.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

41.

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

Jung, Carl

42.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

43.

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

Balzac, Honore De

44.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

45.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

46.

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

47.

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

Hoffer, Eric

48.

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

49.

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

Adams, Thomas

50.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.