Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

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

Penn, William

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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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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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Voltaire

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Denis Diderot

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

Adams, Thomas

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

32.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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

Cicero

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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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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.