Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

May, Rollo

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 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

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Miller, Henry

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

Brown, Rita Mae

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Sue Halpern

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Adams, Thomas

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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 fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Penn, William

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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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.

Saying

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

Merton, Thomas

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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