Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Fellini, Frederico

Best Quotes about Passion

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

May, Rollo

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Seneca

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

Nina Berberova

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

Cowper, William

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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