Motivational Quotes

Passion

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

- Luisa Sigea

Best Quotes about Passion

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

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

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

Cicero

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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

Nina Berberova

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Denis Diderot

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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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 the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

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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