Motivational Quotes

Passion

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Adams, Thomas

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

10.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Sue Halpern

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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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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Eliot, George

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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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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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Denis Diderot

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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