Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Dirksen, Everett M.

Best Quotes about Passion

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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.

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

Penn, William

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

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

Diderot, Denis

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Casals, Pablo

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

May, Rollo

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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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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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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 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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Retton, Mary Lou

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Cowper, William

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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

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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