Motivational Quotes

Passion

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Eliot, George

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Oprah Winfrey

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Penn, William

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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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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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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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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

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

Nina Berberova

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Jung, Carl

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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 is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

Voltaire

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Fellini, Frederico

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

43.

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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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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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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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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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 the trigger of success.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Dirksen, Everett M.