Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Passion

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Cowper, William

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

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jung, Carl

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Nina Berberova

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

Diderot, Denis

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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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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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.