Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

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

Johnson, Samuel

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Miller, Henry

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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

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Jung, Carl

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

Cowper, William

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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

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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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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Penn, William

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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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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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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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