Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Cowper, William

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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.

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

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

May, Rollo

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

Casals, Pablo

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

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

10.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

17.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

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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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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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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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

33.

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Johnson, Samuel

35.

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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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

37.

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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Miller, Henry

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

45.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Nina Berberova

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

Pascal, Blaise

49.

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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus