Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Stanley Kunitz

Best Quotes about Passion

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Denis Diderot

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

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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.

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

11.

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

12.

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

13.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

14.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

15.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

16.

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

17.

Passion is the trigger of success.

18.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

19.

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

Penn, William

20.

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

21.

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

Byron, Lord

22.

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

23.

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

Cowper, William

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

May, Rollo

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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

27.

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

28.

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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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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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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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

34.

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

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Cicero

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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