Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Denis Diderot

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

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

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.

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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 doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Cowper, William

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Cicero

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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Jung, Carl

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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Kundera, Milan

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

Nina Berberova