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

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

Robert Sternberg

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Schaeffer, Francis

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Penn, William

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Jung, Carl

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

May, Rollo

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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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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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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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 only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Casals, Pablo

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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar