Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Passion

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Robert Sternberg

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Brown, Rita Mae

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Nina Berberova

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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 biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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