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

You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

Randy Pausch

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

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

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

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

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

11.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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 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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

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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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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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

37.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Fellini, Frederico

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