Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Passion

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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 dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Adams, Thomas

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Eliot, George

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

Cowper, William

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

Denis Diderot

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Penn, William

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The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

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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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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