Passion Quotes
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
The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.George Sand
There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.Cicero
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.Patricia Moyes
Maybe you are the cool generation... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - How passionately I hate them.Albert Einstein
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
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, The Lonely Life, 1962
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.Blaise Pascal
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.Auguste Renoi
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.John Milton
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.Bernard M. Baruch
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.Swami Sivanada
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.C. C. Colton
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.Rose Dorothy Franken
The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.La Rochefoucauld
All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.La Rochefoucauld
Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion.Tich Nhat Han, The sun my heart
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.Israel Zangwill
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.H. L. Mencken
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.Anne McCaffrey
He was then in his fifty - Fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.G. C. Lichtenberg
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.George Santayana
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.Eric Hoffe
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.Robert Sternberg
You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own!
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
