Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Adams, Thomas

Best Quotes about Passion

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

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.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Nina Berberova

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

Cicero

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

Penn, William

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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