Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Casals, Pablo

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Schaeffer, Francis

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

Sue Halpern

You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Randy Pausch

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

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

Voltaire

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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

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

Eliot, George

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Cicero

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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 fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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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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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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth