Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion is the trigger of success.

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Best Quotes about Passion

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Nina Berberova

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

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

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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Sue Halpern

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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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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, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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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 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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Kundera, Milan

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

Merton, Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Eliot, George

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Cowper, William

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Stanley Kunitz