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

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

Cicero

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

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

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

Sue Halpern

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Stowell, Joseph

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Randy Pausch

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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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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.

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

May, Rollo

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.