Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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

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

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

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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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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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.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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 the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea