Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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.

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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.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Sue Halpern

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Stowell, Joseph

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Cicero

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

Denis Diderot

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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

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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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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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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 only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Oprah Winfrey