Motivational Quotes

Passion

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Stowell, Joseph

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

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

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

10.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

12.

I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Brett, George

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Penn, William

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Nina Berberova

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Cicero

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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

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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sue Halpern