Motivational Quotes

Passion

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

- Lutzer, Erwin W.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Jung, Carl

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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

Denis Diderot

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Campbell, Joseph

Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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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

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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Cowper, William

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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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 dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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 costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Penn, William

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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