Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Passion

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Jung, Carl

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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Cowper, William

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

Cicero

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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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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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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Smith, Eugene W.

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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

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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

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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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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've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Penn, William

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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.