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

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

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Fellini, Frederico

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Barthes, Roland

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Casals, Pablo

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

May, Rollo

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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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.

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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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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

Merton, Thomas

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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