Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Passion

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Penn, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cowper, William

To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Barthes, Roland

10.

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.

11.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

13.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

14.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

15.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

16.

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

17.

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

Hoffer, Eric

18.

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

Stanley Kunitz

19.

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

Diderot, Denis

20.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

21.

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

22.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

26.

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

27.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

28.

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

Robert Sternberg

29.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

30.

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

31.

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

Fellini, Frederico

32.

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

Jung, Carl

33.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

34.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

35.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

36.

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

37.

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

Campbell, Joseph

38.

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

39.

In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

40.

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

41.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

45.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

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

Pascal, Blaise

47.

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

Eckhart, Meister

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Balzac, Honore De