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

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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

Casals, Pablo

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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

Eliot, George

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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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 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, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

Saying

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

Penn, William

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell