Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Denis Diderot

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Nina Berberova

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

20.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Sue Halpern

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Diderot, 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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.