Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Best Quotes about Passion

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

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

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

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Penn, William

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Eliot, George

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

Denis Diderot

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

Cowper, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

30.

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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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Byron, Lord

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

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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 is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Miedzian, Myriam

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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 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