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

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Brown, Rita Mae

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eliot, George

Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Cicero

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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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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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Fellini, Frederico

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nina Berberova

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille