Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Passion

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Denis Diderot

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Adams, Thomas

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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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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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

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

Cicero

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Kundera, Milan

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

42.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Penn, William

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

Diderot, Denis

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

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