Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Adams, Thomas

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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

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

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

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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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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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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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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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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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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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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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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Diderot, Denis

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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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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

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

Nina Berberova

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Voltaire

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

Cowper, William

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