Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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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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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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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

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

Nina Berberova

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis