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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Denis Diderot

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

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

May, Rollo

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Will, George F.

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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Sue Halpern

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Cowper, William

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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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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

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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