Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Denis Diderot

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Cicero

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Casals, Pablo

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Nina Berberova

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Voltaire

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fellini, Frederico

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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 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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.