Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Adams, Thomas

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Stowell, Joseph

She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Will, George F.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eliot, George

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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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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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 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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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

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

Sue Halpern

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Nina Berberova

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Sade, Marquis 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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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 doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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