Motivational Quotes

Passion

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Voltaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Cowper, William

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Sue Halpern

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.

Casals, Pablo

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero

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

Eliot, George

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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 fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Fuller, Thomas

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Browne, Sir Thomas