Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Byron, Lord

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jung, Carl

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Diderot, Denis

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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 fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

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

Denis Diderot

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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

29.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

30.

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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Nina Berberova

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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 doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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 makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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