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

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

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

Schaeffer, Francis

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Oprah Winfrey

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Nina Berberova

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

Penn, William

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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

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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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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Jung, Carl

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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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

34.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Cicero

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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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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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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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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell