Motivational Quotes

Passion

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Jung, Carl

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

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

Schaeffer, Francis

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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

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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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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

May, Rollo

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

Nina Berberova

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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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