Motivational Quotes

Passion

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Denis Diderot

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Barthes, Roland

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

Byron, Lord

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse 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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 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 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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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

Cicero

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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Jung, Carl