Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Denis Diderot

Best Quotes about Passion

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

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Fellini, Frederico

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

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.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Voltaire

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Cicero

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Eliot, George

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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 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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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Seneca

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

Penn, William

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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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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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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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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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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

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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.