Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Byron, Lord

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Eliot, George

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

Jung, Carl

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

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

Sue Halpern

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Cicero

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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth