Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Smith, Eugene W.

Best Quotes about Passion

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Johnson, Samuel

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Penn, William

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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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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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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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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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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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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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

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise