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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

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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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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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Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

Saying

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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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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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero

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

Nina Berberova

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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 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.

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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

May, Rollo

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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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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Eliot, George

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

Smith, Eugene W.