Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

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

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

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

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

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

Casals, Pablo

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 worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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