Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Passion

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sue Halpern

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

Byron, Lord

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

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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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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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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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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Penn, William

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

Browne, Sir Thomas