Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Denis Diderot

Best Quotes about Passion

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.

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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

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

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

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

Denis Diderot

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.

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

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Byron, Lord

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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 dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Voltaire

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Kundera, Milan

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

Cowper, William

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Penn, William

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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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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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 doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.