Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nina Berberova

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Eliot, George

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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