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Passion

Passion is the trigger of success.

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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

13.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Nina Berberova

35.

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

Oprah Winfrey

36.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

41.

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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

46.

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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

49.

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

Sue Halpern

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.