Motivational Quotes

Passion

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

- Luisa Sigea

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Denis Diderot

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Eliot, George

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

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Cowper, William

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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Eugene W.

23.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

25.

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 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.

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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

28.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Eckhart, Meister

34.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

41.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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