Motivational Quotes

Passion

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Passion

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

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Cicero

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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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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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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Denis Diderot

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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