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

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cicero

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

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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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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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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 costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Retton, Mary Lou

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

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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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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

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

Eliot, George

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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Brett, George

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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.