Motivational Quotes

Passion

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Hegel, Georg

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Cicero

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Stanley Kunitz

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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

24.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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

30.

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

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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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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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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.

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

Penn, William

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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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