Motivational Quotes

Passion

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Passion

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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

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

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 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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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Cowper, William

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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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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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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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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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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Smith, Eugene W.

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

Adams, Thomas

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

Cicero

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Nina Berberova

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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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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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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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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Schaeffer, Francis

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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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.