Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Robert Sternberg

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Byron, Lord

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.

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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Voltaire

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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

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

Hegel, Georg

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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

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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea