Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Robert Sternberg

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nina Berberova

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

Byron, Lord

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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 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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Sue Halpern

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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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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

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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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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

Merton, Thomas

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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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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Cousins, Norman

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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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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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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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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Bernanos, Georges

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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Penn, William

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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!