Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Adams, Thomas

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Cicero

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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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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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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Nina Berberova

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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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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Casals, Pablo