Motivational Quotes

Passion

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

- Irving, John

Best Quotes about Passion

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Fuller, Thomas

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

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

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

May, Rollo

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

Stainback, Arthur H.

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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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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Penn, William

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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse 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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Sue Halpern

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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Nina Berberova

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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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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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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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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Helvetius, Claude A.