Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

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

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Voltaire

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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Eliot, George

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Byron, Lord

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

Stanley Kunitz

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Miedzian, Myriam

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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Denis Diderot

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti