Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Denis Diderot

Best Quotes about Passion

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.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

Eliot, George

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

Cicero

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Byron, Lord

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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 fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

43.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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 whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

Merton, Thomas

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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

Fellini, Frederico