Motivational Quotes

Passion

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Passion

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Rebecca West

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

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

Cicero

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

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Eliot, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Casals, Pablo

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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Nina Berberova

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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 the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

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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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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Denis Diderot