Motivational Quotes

Passion

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Penn, William

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

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

10.

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

11.

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

Eliot, George

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

Cicero

13.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Cowper, William

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

Diderot, Denis

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

25.

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

Nina Berberova

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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 fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Denis Diderot

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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 costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Stowell, Joseph

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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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