Motivational Quotes

Passion

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

- Sayers, Dorothy L.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Brown, Rita Mae

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Eliot, George

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Cowper, William

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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 doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

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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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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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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 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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I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Brett, George

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

Stanley Kunitz

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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 trigger of success.

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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 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