Passion Quotes

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Seneca

The worst sin - Perhaps the only sin - Passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers, O Magazine, September 2003

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

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!

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

National Health Insurance: The compassion of the IRS The efficiency of the Postal Service All at Pentagon prices!!!!

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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 the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

Anne McCaffrey

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

C. S. Lewis

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.

Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003

All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

La Rochefoucauld

It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Thomas Elliot

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Simone Weil

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore De Balzac

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Daniel Webste

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley

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

A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.

Benjamin Disraeli

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

De La Rochefoucauld.

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - As the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. Maxims.

La Rochefoucauld

The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.

Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

Plato

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

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Fawn M. Brodie

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.

Edmund Burke

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton