Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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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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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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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

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

Penn, William

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

Cicero

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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

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Voltaire

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Cowper, William

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Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Browne, Sir 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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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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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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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