Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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 is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Voltaire

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Denis Diderot

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Penn, William

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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 our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Eckhart, Meister

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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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