Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Eliot, George

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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.

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

Penn, William

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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Cowper, William

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

Nina Berberova

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Cicero

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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Voltaire

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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