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

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

Eckhart, Meister

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

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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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Fuller, 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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Casals, Pablo

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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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