Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Rebecca West

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Eckhart, Meister

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Sue Halpern

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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.

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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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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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

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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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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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 makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Penn, William

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

Eliot, George

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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.