Motivational Quotes

Passion

Passion is the genesis of genius.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Passion

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Hoffer, Eric

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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

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

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Penn, William

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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

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

Jung, Carl

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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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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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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Passion is the trigger of success.

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

Cicero

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Chase your passion, not your pension.

Waitley, Denis

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

Adams, Thomas

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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Stanley Kunitz

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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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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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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Eliot, George

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea