Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Cowper, William

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nina Berberova

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Sue Halpern

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Cicero

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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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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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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Penn, William

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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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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