Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Nina Berberova

Best Quotes about Passion

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Cicero

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

Sue Halpern

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Randy Pausch

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Robert Sternberg

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Retton, Mary Lou

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

Fellini, Frederico

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Smith, Eugene W.

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