Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cicero

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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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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

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Cowper, William

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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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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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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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Denis Diderot

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

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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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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Eliot, George

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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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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Nina Berberova

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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 passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von