Motivational Quotes

Passion

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

- Stowell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Passion

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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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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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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 kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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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

14.

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

Cicero

15.

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

Eliot, George

16.

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'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

18.

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

19.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

20.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Balzac, Honore De

22.

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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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

25.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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

27.

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

Casals, Pablo

28.

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

29.

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

30.

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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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

32.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

34.

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

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

39.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

40.

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

Nina Berberova

41.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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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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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

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

46.

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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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

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

49.

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

Hegel, Georg