Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Rebecca West

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Fellini, Frederico

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Penn, William

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Eliot, George

39.

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

40.

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

Diderot, Denis

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Adams, Thomas

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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