Motivational Quotes

Passion

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Passion

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

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

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

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Fuller, 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 dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, 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