Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Passion

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Stanley Kunitz

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Kundera, Milan

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Byron, Lord

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Sue Halpern

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

Nina Berberova

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

Penn, William

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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