Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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

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

Eliot, George

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

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

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

Stowell, Joseph

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Casals, Pablo

10.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

11.

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

12.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

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

14.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

15.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

16.

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

17.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

18.

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

Nina Berberova

19.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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

21.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

22.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

23.

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

24.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

25.

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

Penn, William

26.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

27.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

28.

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

29.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

Cowper, William

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

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

35.

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

36.

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

37.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

38.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

39.

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

40.

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

Voltaire

41.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

43.

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

Oprah Winfrey

44.

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

45.

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

46.

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

47.

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

48.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

49.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

50.

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