Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion is the genesis of genius.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Passion

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Eliot, George

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

Hoffer, Eric

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Passion is the trigger of success.

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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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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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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

Merton, Thomas

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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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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'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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Nina Berberova

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Casals, Pablo

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.