Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion is the trigger of success.

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Best Quotes about Passion

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

May, Rollo

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Balzac, Honore De

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Hoffer, Eric

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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 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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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Pasternak, Boris

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Cowper, William

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Eliot, George

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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Denis Diderot

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Cicero

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea