Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Fellini, Frederico

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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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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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Voltaire

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Penn, William

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Diderot, Denis

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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 doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.