Motivational Quotes

Passion

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

- Stowell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Sue Halpern

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Passion is the trigger of success.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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.

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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Cousins, Norman

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Nina Berberova

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Penn, William

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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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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Byron, Lord

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

Casals, Pablo

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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