Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Denis Diderot

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Nina Berberova

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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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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Eliot, George

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.