Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Trungpa, Chogyam

Best Quotes about Passion

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Denis Diderot

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Penn, William

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

May, Rollo

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Cicero

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Voltaire

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Eliot, George

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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis 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.