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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

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

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Jung, Carl

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

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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Randy Pausch

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

Penn, William

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Retton, Mary Lou

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

Sue Halpern

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cowper, William

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Denis Diderot

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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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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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