Motivational Quotes

Passion

To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

- Barthes, Roland

Best Quotes about Passion

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

Adams, Thomas

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

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.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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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

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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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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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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, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Fellini, Frederico

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

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

Voltaire

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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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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

48.

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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Passion is the trigger of success.