Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Sue Halpern

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Penn, William

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Voltaire

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cicero

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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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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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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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 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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I had learnt to seek intensityàmore of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova

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

Denis Diderot

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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 can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Herzen, Alexander