Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about 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

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Jung, Carl

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Penn, William

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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

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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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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

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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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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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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth