Motivational Quotes

Passion

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

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Passion

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Stanley Kunitz

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

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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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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

Randy Pausch

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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

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Denis Diderot

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Cicero

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

33.

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

Nina Berberova

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.