Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Smith, Eugene W.

Best Quotes about Passion

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Stowell, Joseph

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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

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

Adams, 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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Denis Diderot

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Eliot, George

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Byron, Lord

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Nina Berberova

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille