Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Passion

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero

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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

23.

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, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

27.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

28.

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

29.

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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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.

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Eliot, George

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

45.

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 kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Eckhart, Meister