Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Nina Berberova

Best Quotes about Passion

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

You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Randy Pausch

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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.

Diderot, Denis

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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Seneca

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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

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

Cicero

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

Jung, Carl

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

Penn, William

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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