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

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

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

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

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Denis Diderot

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Will, George F.

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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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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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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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Penn, William

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

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

Hegel, Georg

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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Bernanos, Georges

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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

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

Cowper, William

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.