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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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

Hegel, Georg

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Cowper, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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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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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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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

May, Rollo

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Penn, William

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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