Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Nina Berberova

Best Quotes about Passion

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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 is the trigger of success.

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

Cicero

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

Sue Halpern

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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

29.

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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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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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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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 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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Adams, Thomas