Motivational Quotes

Passion

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

- Stowell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Passion

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Rebecca West

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

Eliot, George

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Cicero

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

Adams, Thomas

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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Penn, William

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Cowper, William

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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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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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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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

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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