Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Denis Diderot

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

Voltaire

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

Penn, William

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.

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse 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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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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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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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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

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Eliot, George