Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Dirksen, Everett M.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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

Byron, Lord

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Jung, Carl

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

Adams, Thomas

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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Nina Berberova

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hegel, Georg

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Cicero

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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Voltaire

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