Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Nina Berberova

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Eliot, George

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Cowper, William

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

Jung, Carl

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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 great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph