Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Cousins, Norman

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

May, Rollo

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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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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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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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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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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

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero

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

Byron, Lord

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eliot, George

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm