Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

Merton, Thomas

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Fellini, Frederico

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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 the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Denis Diderot

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Miedzian, Myriam

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm