Great Passion Quotes

• Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

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• Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Confidence

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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

  Peace, Life And Love, Work

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

  Federico Fellini

  Life, Positive, Football

  "Fellini on Fellini". Book by Federico Fellini edited by Anna Keel and Christian Strich and translated by Isabel Quigly, 1976.

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  Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.

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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

  Work, Passion, Hands

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.89, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Happiness, Romantic

  "Pensées Philosophiques". Book by Denis Diderot, 1746.

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• Man is only great when he acts from passion.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wise, Wisdom, Passion

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5018, Delphi Classics

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• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• In music the passions enjoy themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Passion, Jazz

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.274, Modern Library

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• Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Passion, Joy

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2013). “The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection”, p.459, Hay House, Inc

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• We must act out passion before we can feel it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Passion

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley". Book by T. S. Eliot, ch. 1, Columbia University Press (quoting Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916), 1964.

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Essays "Circles" (1841)

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• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Beautiful, Passion, Literature

  1922 Fantasia of the Unconscious, ch.15.

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• So try to pursue the very things that you are passionate about- that is the difference between good and great!

  Shawn Doyle

  Passion, Differences, Trying

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• Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Passion, Ambition

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• ... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Girl, Strong, Passion

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• The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

  Victor Hugo

  Passion, Heart, Heroic

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• I had, as I told you, a great passion while still almost a child. When it was over, I divided myself in two, placing on one side the soul I kept for Art, and on the other, my body, which would have to fend for itself.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love, Art, Children

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• Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Light

  "Culture and Anarchy" by Matthew Arnold, (Ch. I), 1869.

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• The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even for his children, but for his masculinity, and at any point in his life he may be tempted to throw over the things for which he regularly lays down his life for the sake of that masculinity. He may keep this passion secret from women, and he may even deny it to himself, but the other boys know it about themselves and the wiser ones know it about the rest of us as well.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Passion, Boys

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