Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Schaeffer, Francis

Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Eliot, George

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

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Browne, Sir Thomas

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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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

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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.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Fellini, Frederico

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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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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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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Cicero

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

Cowper, William

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!