Motivational Quotes

Passion

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

- Stowell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Cowper, William

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

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

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

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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

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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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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

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

Penn, William

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

May, Rollo

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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 passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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 worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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