Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Stanley Kunitz

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Hoffer, Eric

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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 fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

May, Rollo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Cicero

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Penn, William

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Nina Berberova

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

Denis Diderot

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo