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

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

Fuller, Thomas

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Penn, William

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Denis Diderot

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Cicero

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Trungpa, Chogyam

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Casals, Pablo

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Byron, Lord

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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

May, Rollo

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus