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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Fuller, Thomas

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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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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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.

Georg Wilhelm

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Fellini, Frederico

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Lee, Spike

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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

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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 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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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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