Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

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

Cicero

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

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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.

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

Nina Berberova

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Byron, Lord

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

May, Rollo

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Cousins, Norman

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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 worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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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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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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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.

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

Eliot, George

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.