Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Penn, William

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'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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Cowper, William

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Campbell, Joseph

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I had learnt to seek intensityàmore of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova

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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Casals, Pablo

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

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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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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.