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

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

Nina Berberova

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

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

Denis Diderot

11.

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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

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

Oprah Winfrey

14.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

15.

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

Cicero

16.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

17.

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

May, Rollo

18.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

19.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

20.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

22.

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

Adams, Thomas

23.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

27.

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

Rebecca West

28.

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

Balzac, Honore De

29.

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

30.

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

Casals, Pablo

31.

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

Fellini, Frederico

32.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

33.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

35.

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

Eckhart, Meister

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

39.

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

Campbell, Joseph

40.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

41.

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

Johnson, Samuel

42.

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

43.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

46.

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

47.

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

48.

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

Eliot, George

49.

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

Byron, Lord

50.

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