Passion Quotes

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Aristotle

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The Dalai Lama

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Honore De Balzac

Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.

Epictetus

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

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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

Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined.

Blessing Irish

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

Rush Limbaugh

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.

Robert

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

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.

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

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

Dorothy L. Sayers, O Magazine, September 2003

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".

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.

Amanda Medinge

He who feels no compassion will become insane.

Hasidic Saying

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Ovid

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Patricia Moyes

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

Anne McCaffrey

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Clive Staples Lewis

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

cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit.

Maynard James Keenan, in the song "Schism", by Tool

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

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

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.

Anthony Powell

No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

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