Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Smith, Eugene W.

Best Quotes about Passion

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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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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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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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Miller, Henry

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Nina Berberova

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Penn, William

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

Eliot, George

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Cicero

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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