Passion Quotes

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy. View quote
Aristotle
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. View quote
Antisthenes
Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Patience and time do more than strength or passion. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Man is only great when he acts from passion. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. View quote
Rebecca West
Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. View quote
Aristotle
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. View quote
Robert Sternberg
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. View quote
Dante Alighieri
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. View quote
Edmund Burke
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. View quote
Iris Murdoch
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. View quote
Martha Graham
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life. View quote
Federico Fellini
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. (Harriet Tubman)
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence... View quote
John Adams
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves. View quote
Blaise Pascal
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. View quote
Cicero
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. View quote
Edmund Burke
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