Motivational Quotes

Passion

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.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Cicero

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Brown, Rita Mae

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Johnson, Samuel

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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 the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

May, Rollo

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Stainback, Arthur H.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Voltaire

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Byron, Lord

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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.