Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about 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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Voltaire

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

Nina Berberova

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

Cowper, William

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

May, Rollo

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Robert Sternberg

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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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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 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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Eliot, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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

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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham

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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