Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

May, Rollo

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Eugene W.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Penn, William

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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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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Cicero

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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Denis Diderot

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

Oprah Winfrey