Motivational Quotes

Passion

Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

- Randy Pausch

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Denis Diderot

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Campbell, Joseph

11.

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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Cicero

18.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

19.

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

20.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

21.

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Penn, William

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

27.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

28.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Adams, Thomas

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Sue Halpern

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

Passion is the trigger of success.

37.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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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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To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Barthes, Roland

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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

44.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

50.

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