Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Adams, Thomas

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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

Casals, Pablo

The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rebecca West

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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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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

27.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

30.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hegel, Georg

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel