Motivational Quotes

Passion

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

- Wright, Wilbur

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nina Berberova

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Smith, Eugene 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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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 the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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

Cicero

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Penn, William

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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

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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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