Motivational Quotes

Passion

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

- Georg Wilhelm

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Jung, Carl

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Byron, Lord

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Cicero

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

May, Rollo

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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Cowper, William

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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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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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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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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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You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Randy Pausch

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Eliot, George

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Nina Berberova

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

Diderot, Denis