Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Passion

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

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

Denis Diderot

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

Fellini, Frederico

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Hegel, Georg

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Sue Halpern

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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Fuller, Thomas

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Nina Berberova

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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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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Eliot, George

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Penn, William

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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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