Motivational Quotes

Passion

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

- Luisa Sigea

Best Quotes about Passion

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

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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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

11.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Denis Diderot

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Eliot, George

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nina Berberova

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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Penn, William

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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