Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Stowell, Joseph

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Cicero

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Adams, Thomas

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Penn, William

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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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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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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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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Sue Halpern

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren