Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Passion

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Sade, Marquis De

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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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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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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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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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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Will, George F.

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti