Motivational Quotes

Passion

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

- Luisa Sigea

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

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

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.

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

Byron, Lord

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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 trigger of success.

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Diderot, Denis

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Denis Diderot

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

Stanley Kunitz

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Penn, William

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Eliot, George

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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 is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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