Motivational Quotes

Passion

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Brown, Rita Mae

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Sue Halpern

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cicero

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Adams, Thomas

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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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 doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

27.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Denis Diderot

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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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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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

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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