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Passion

Passion is the trigger of success.

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Best Quotes about Passion

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Irving, John

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

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Campbell, Joseph

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Robert Sternberg

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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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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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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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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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Seneca

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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 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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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 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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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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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

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

Eliot, George

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Stanley Kunitz

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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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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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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