Motivational Quotes

Passion

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Passion

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

10.

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

Cowper, William

11.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Sue Halpern

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Cicero

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

35.

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Denis Diderot

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

Stainback, Arthur H.

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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.

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