Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- May, Rollo

Best Quotes about Passion

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

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

Eliot, George

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rebecca West

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Penn, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Brett, George

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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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You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Randy Pausch

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Jung, Carl

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean