Motivational Quotes

Passion

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Lee, Spike

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Eliot, George

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Jung, Carl

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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

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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

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Penn, William

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

Cowper, William

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

May, Rollo

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.