Motivational Quotes

Passion

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

- Sayers, Dorothy L.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Oprah Winfrey

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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 makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Penn, William

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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

May, Rollo

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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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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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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

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

Denis Diderot

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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