Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

Saying

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Penn, William

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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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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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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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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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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Kundera, Milan

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

Eliot, George

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.