Motivational Quotes

Passion

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

- May, Rollo

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

Nina Berberova

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

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

Sue Halpern

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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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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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Penn, William

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

Cowper, William

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Denis Diderot

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Cicero

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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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 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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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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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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