Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Nina Berberova

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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 fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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 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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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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

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

Cicero

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

Penn, William

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

Denis Diderot

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph