Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Cowper, William

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

Sue Halpern

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

May, Rollo

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero

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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Nina Berberova

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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.

Saying

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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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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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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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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Bernanos, Georges

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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.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Byron, Lord

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis