Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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

Eliot, George

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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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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Cousins, Norman

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Penn, William

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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