Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Passion

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Stanley Kunitz

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

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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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Nina Berberova

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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Cicero

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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 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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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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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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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

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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

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

Denis Diderot

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.