Motivational Quotes

Passion

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

- Irving, John

Best Quotes about Passion

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.

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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.

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Nina Berberova

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Cicero

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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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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