Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Denis Diderot

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

Diderot, Denis

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Eliot, George

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Robert Sternberg

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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Miedzian, Myriam

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

Penn, William

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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