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

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Denis Diderot

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

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

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

10.

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

11.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

12.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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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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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

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eliot, George

31.

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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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

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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

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

Cicero

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Penn, William

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

39.

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

Voltaire

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.