Motivational Quotes

Passion

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Passion

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Penn, William

The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

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

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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

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

Cowper, William

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Robert Sternberg