Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

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

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Cowper, William

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Robert Sternberg

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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.

Diderot, Denis

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Brett, George

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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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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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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 hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Eliot, George

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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Denis Diderot

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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.