Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Hegel, Georg

Best Quotes about Passion

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Penn, William

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

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

Byron, Lord

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to 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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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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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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

Smith, Eugene W.

29.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Denis Diderot

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

Rebecca West

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

Fellini, Frederico

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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