Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Campbell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

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

Diderot, Denis

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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

Casals, Pablo

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.

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

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

Smith, Eugene W.

Passion is the trigger of success.

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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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

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

Penn, William

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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Lee, Spike

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell