Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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 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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

21.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Byron, Lord

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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Lee, Spike

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

37.

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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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

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

Denis Diderot

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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Passion is the trigger of success.

50.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis