Motivational Quotes

Passion

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.

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Cicero

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

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Stanley Kunitz

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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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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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Denis Diderot

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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Nina Berberova

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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 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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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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 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 fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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

May, Rollo

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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 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