Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Casals, Pablo

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Eliot, George

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

Robert Sternberg

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Lee, Spike

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Oprah Winfrey

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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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 makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Penn, William

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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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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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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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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth