Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Nina Berberova

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Denis Diderot

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Jung, Carl

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

Sue Halpern

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Adams, Thomas

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

May, Rollo

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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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