Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Passion

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

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

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

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

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Nina Berberova

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Sue Halpern

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Jung, Carl

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Stowell, Joseph

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.