Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

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

Nina Berberova

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

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Schaeffer, Francis

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

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

Voltaire

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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

12.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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 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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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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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 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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Denis Diderot

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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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

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

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

May, Rollo

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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