Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Passion

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

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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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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 costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin 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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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

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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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