Motivational Quotes

Passion

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Passion

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

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Rebecca West

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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