Motivational Quotes

Passion

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

- Epicharmus

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

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

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Sue Halpern

Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Pascal, Blaise

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Nina Berberova

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Cicero

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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