Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Denis Diderot

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

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Nina Berberova

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Voltaire

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

Cowper, William

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