Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Stanley Kunitz

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Brown, Rita Mae

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

May, Rollo

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

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Cicero

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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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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Nina Berberova

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Sue Halpern

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Cowper, William

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord