Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Stanley Kunitz

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

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

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Penn, William

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

Passion is the trigger of success.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sue Halpern

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.

10.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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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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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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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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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Byron, Lord

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Nina Berberova

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell