Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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

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

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

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

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.

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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Stanley Kunitz

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

28.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Cowper, William

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

36.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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