Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Campbell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Passion

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Eliot, George

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Diderot, Denis

The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Byron, Lord

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

May, Rollo

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

19.

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

Nina Berberova

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Jung, Carl

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

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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Penn, William

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Cicero

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.