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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Robert Sternberg

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nina Berberova

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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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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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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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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Voltaire

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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

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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 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 costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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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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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