Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Nina Berberova

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Casals, Pablo

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

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Fellini, Frederico

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Diderot, Denis

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

Cowper, William

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Jung, Carl

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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

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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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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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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

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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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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