Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Voltaire

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

11.

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

Nina Berberova

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

Balzac, Honore De

14.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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

Cowper, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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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 makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

23.

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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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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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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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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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

Cicero

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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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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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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

41.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Barthes, Roland

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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.