Motivational Quotes

Passion

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Jung, Carl

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Robert Sternberg

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

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

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

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

Adams, Thomas

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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

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Miedzian, Myriam

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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.

Viscott, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Nina Berberova

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Eckhart, Meister

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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