Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Nina Berberova

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

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Will, George F.

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

Denis Diderot

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Penn, William

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Cicero

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Eliot, George

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

Cowper, William

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Sue Halpern

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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