Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

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

Adams, Thomas

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Penn, William

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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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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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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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Cowper, William

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

Saying

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

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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 trigger of success.

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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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