Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

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

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

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

Hegel, Georg

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

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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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

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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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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

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Diderot, Denis

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Cicero

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

Eliot, George

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Jung, Carl

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Cowper, William

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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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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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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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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 kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern