Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Brown, Rita Mae

She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Will, George F.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Penn, William

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

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

Eliot, George

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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

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

Cicero

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Cowper, William

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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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