Motivational Quotes

Passion

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

- Georg Wilhelm

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

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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

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

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

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Casals, Pablo

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Penn, William

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Cowper, William

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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.