Passion Quotes - Page 41

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

If you are doing what you love then you're doing what is right. Desire and passion resonate with your body, mind and soul. When you're passionate you don't question, judge, criticize, second-guess, or doubt. It's that passion that will fuel the fire to overcome challenges.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

Passion + Persistence = Possibility

From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.

I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.

The Five A’s (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing) are simultaneously the fulfillment of our earliest needs, the requirements of adult intimacy and of universal compassion, and the essential qualities of mindfulness practice.

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

The most essential quality in the game is passion

I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.