Motivational Quotes

Passion

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Passion

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nina Berberova

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

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

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.

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

Penn, William

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

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Eliot, George

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

Diderot, Denis

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Cowper, William

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord