Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Stanley Kunitz

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Barthes, Roland

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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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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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