Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Denis Diderot

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Cicero

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

Nina Berberova

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Denis Diderot

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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 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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Voltaire

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

May, Rollo

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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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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

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Penn, William

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Cowper, William

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

Eliot, George