Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Passion

Passion is the trigger of success.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Sue Halpern

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

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

Denis Diderot

Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Eliot, George

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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 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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Diderot, Denis

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Lee, Spike

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

Nina Berberova

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.