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

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Penn, William

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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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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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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Fellini, Frederico