Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Passion

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

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

Sue Halpern

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

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

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

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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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Fuller, Thomas

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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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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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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