Motivational Quotes

Passion

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

- Sayers, Dorothy L.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Herzen, Alexander

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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Penn, William

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Balzac, Honore 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

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Retton, Mary Lou

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Denis Diderot

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

Cowper, William

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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.