Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Passion

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

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

Voltaire

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Cicero

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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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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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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

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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 makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Denis Diderot

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sue Halpern

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

May, Rollo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stowell, Joseph

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