Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Passion

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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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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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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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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

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

Cowper, William

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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De