Motivational Quotes

Passion

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Passion

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Cicero

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

Voltaire

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

Eliot, George

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Denis Diderot

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Penn, William

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Diderot, Denis

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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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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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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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