Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Cowper, William

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

Sue Halpern

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

11.

You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

Randy Pausch

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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 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 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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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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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

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

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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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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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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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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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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

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Denis Diderot

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Lee, Spike

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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Brown, Rita Mae