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

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

May, Rollo

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

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Brett, George

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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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The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

Stainback, Arthur H.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Byron, Lord

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

Denis Diderot

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

Adams, Thomas

34.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Miedzian, Myriam

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

Penn, William

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

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

Cowper, William