Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Best Quotes about 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

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

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

10.

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

Stanley Kunitz

11.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

18.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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

28.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Denis Diderot

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Smith, Eugene W.

33.

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

34.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

35.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

40.

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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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Seneca

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.