Motivational Quotes

Passion

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.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Eliot, George

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Cowper, William

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Stanley Kunitz

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Campbell, Joseph

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Nina Berberova

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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 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

40.

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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Voltaire

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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.

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