Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Denis Diderot

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

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Sade, Marquis De

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Penn, William

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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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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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Nina Berberova

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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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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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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 makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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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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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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

Eliot, George

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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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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