Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Sue Halpern

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Brown, Rita Mae

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Penn, William

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

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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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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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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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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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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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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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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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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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.