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“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
Albert Schweitzer
“I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Without passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.”
Donald Trump
“I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.”
Elizabeth Taylor
“I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.”
Desmond Tutu
“God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.”
Desmond Tutu
“We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.”
Desmond Tutu
“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”
Oprah Winfrey
“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
Virginia Woolf
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
John Adams
“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”
Edmund Burke
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
Edmund Burke
“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
Edmund Burke
“He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
Edmund Burke
“The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”
Edmund Burke
“Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.”
Robert Browning
“Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.”
Ambrose Bierce
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”
George Washington Carver
“Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.”
Deepak Chopra
“If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.”
Roman Polanski
“Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.”
Nicolas Cage
“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
Jack Welch
