Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Stowell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Penn, William

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.

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

Stainback, Arthur H.

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Denis Diderot

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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 is the trigger of success.

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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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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm