Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Pascal, Blaise

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Cicero

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Cowper, William

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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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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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I had learnt to seek intensityàmore of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova

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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

May, Rollo

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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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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

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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Eliot, George

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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Will, George F.

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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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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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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Penn, William

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier