Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

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

Cowper, William

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

Oprah Winfrey

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Eliot, George

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Denis Diderot

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

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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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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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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.

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