Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Schaeffer, Francis

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

Cicero

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

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

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Diderot, Denis

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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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

37.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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

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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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You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Randy Pausch

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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.