Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sue Halpern

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

Diderot, Denis

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

10.

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

11.

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

Jung, Carl

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

13.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Smith, Eugene W.

24.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Penn, William

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

40.

Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Balzac, Honore De

44.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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.