Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Penn, William

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

Diderot, Denis

The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Casals, Pablo

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 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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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

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

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Voltaire

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

Nina Berberova

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

Stanley Kunitz

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Cicero

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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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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