Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Hegel, Georg

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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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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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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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

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

Eliot, George

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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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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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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