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

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

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

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

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

Denis Diderot

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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

16.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Cicero

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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

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Penn, William

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

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Brown, Rita Mae