Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Sue Halpern

Best Quotes about Passion

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Oprah Winfrey

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Voltaire

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Nina Berberova

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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

May, Rollo

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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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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.