Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

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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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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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The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

Stainback, Arthur H.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Nina Berberova

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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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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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Penn, William

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Sue Halpern

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Cicero

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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