Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

May, Rollo

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Penn, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

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

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Nina Berberova

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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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

19.

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

Robert Sternberg

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Cowper, William

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eckhart, Meister