Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Smith, Eugene W.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

May, Rollo

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

10.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Eliot, George

11.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

12.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

13.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Fellini, Frederico

18.

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

19.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Hegel, Georg

26.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

27.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

28.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

29.

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

Cowper, William

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

Denis Diderot

32.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

34.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

35.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

36.

Passion is the trigger of success.

37.

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

38.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

39.

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

40.

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

Casals, Pablo

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

44.

As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Stowell, Joseph

45.

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

Rebecca West

46.

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

Oprah Winfrey

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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

Brown, Rita Mae