Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Casals, Pablo

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

Jung, Carl

11.

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

Fellini, Frederico

12.

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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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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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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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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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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Campbell, Joseph

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Smith, Eugene W.

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Cicero

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The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

28.

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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Eliot, George

38.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

42.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Nina Berberova