Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

May, Rollo

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Fellini, Frederico

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Eliot, George

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Eckhart, Meister

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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

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

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

Nina Berberova

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Thoreau, Henry David