Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Jung, Carl

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

Cicero

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

Randy Pausch

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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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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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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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