Motivational Quotes

Passion

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Passion

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

Voltaire

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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 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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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Eliot, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Cowper, William

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hegel, Georg