Motivational Quotes

Passion

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

- Paglia, Camille

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Nina Berberova

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

Denis Diderot

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

Jung, Carl

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

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

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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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

May, Rollo

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Penn, William

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adams, Thomas

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

38.

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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.