Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Cicero

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Fuller, 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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Voltaire

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

33.

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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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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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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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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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

39.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

41.

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

Cowper, William

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

May, Rollo

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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

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Diderot, Denis

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.