Motivational Quotes

Passion

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.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Sue Halpern

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Byron, Lord

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren