Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Diderot, Denis

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.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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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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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

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

May, Rollo

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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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 the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cowper, William

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

Cicero

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

Nina Berberova

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Balzac, Honore De