Motivational Quotes

Passion

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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

14.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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

18.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

19.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

20.

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

Jung, Carl

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Nina Berberova

25.

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 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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oprah Winfrey

31.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

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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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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

35.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Penn, William

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.