Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

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

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

Cicero

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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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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Eliot, George

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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Nina Berberova

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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 idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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