Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

Passion is the trigger of success.

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Rebecca West

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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

Nina Berberova

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, 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

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