Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cicero

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

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Miller, Henry

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

Eliot, George

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You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

Randy Pausch

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

Nina Berberova

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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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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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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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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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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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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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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

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Penn, William

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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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 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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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti