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

Kundera, Milan

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

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

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

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

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Penn, William

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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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

29.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Cicero

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Byron, Lord

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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