Motivational Quotes

Passion

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Passion

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.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Byron, Lord

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Adams, Thomas

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Denis Diderot

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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