Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Nina Berberova

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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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cowper, William

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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 passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Denis Diderot

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Penn, William

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Brown, Rita Mae