Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Denis Diderot

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham

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.

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

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Cicero

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

10.

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

11.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

13.

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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

17.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

18.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

19.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

20.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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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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

24.

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

25.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

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

28.

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

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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

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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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

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

37.

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

Jung, Carl

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Passion is the trigger of success.

39.

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

40.

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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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

44.

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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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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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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

49.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Balzac, Honore De