Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Smith, Eugene W.

Best Quotes about Passion

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Cicero

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

Sue Halpern

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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Denis Diderot

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To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Barthes, Roland

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

Penn, William

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Pound, Ezra

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

Voltaire

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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

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

Nina Berberova

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

May, Rollo

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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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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Fuller, Thomas

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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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