Motivational Quotes

Passion

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Cicero

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Sade, Marquis De

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Sue Halpern

10.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Eliot, George

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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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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Nina Berberova

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

Penn, William

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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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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Diderot, Denis

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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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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

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

Denis Diderot

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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.