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

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

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

Diderot, Denis

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Voltaire

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Nina Berberova

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

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

Jung, Carl

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Penn, William

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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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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

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Stainback, Arthur H.

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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