Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Penn, William

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Cowper, William

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Eliot, George

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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 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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Nina Berberova

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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.