Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Hegel, Georg

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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

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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 the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Voltaire

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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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