Motivational Quotes

Passion

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.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

May, Rollo

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Cowper, William

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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, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nina Berberova

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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

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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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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 genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Stainback, Arthur H.

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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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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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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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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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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