Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

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

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

May, Rollo

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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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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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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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Sue Halpern

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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Cicero

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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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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Passion is the trigger of success.

36.

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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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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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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis