Motivational Quotes

Passion

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

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

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

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Adams, Thomas

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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 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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Penn, William

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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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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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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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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