Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Jung, Carl

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

May, Rollo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cicero

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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.

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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