Motivational Quotes

Passion

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Passion

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Diderot, Denis

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Penn, William

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

10.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

11.

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

12.

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

Nina Berberova

15.

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

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

18.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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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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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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.

23.

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

Sade, Marquis De

24.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

28.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Voltaire

30.

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

31.

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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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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 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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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

39.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

40.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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