Motivational Quotes

Passion

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Diderot, Denis

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Nina Berberova

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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 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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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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There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Eliot, George

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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

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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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

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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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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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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus