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

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Balzac, Honore De

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Stanley Kunitz

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Eliot, George

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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 trigger of success.

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Nina Berberova

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Lee, Spike

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Fellini, Frederico

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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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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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

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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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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