PASSION QUOTES

• We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• 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 ~
• He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.
  ~ John Milton ~
• Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
  ~ William Butler Yeats ~
• Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
  ~ Alexander Pope ~
• What life shall be without passion? A dead wood, more or less!
  ~ Chandeeswar Venkata ~
• Your passion is your pleasure even if you don't earn a cent out of it. Just do it because your greatest payment is the pleasure.
  ~ Okidi Gabriel Ronald ~
• Love & compassion are permanent nature of human but it keeps on fluctuating upon time.
  ~ Norbu Dorji ~
• Passion beats lack.
  ~ Unice Erica ~
• Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
  ~ Ovid ~
• We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
  ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
• 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 ~
• Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
  ~ Jean De La Fontaine ~
• No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
  ~ Boris Pasternak ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
  ~ John Milton ~
• 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 ~
• Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
• 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 thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
  ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
• Ears attuned, hearts engaged—listening unlocks the doors to empathy,compassion, and profound connections
  ~ Aloo Denish Obiero ~
• Passion belongs to nothing and reason belong to many things that’s why reason it is better than passion.
  ~ Zaman Ali ~
• I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.
  ~ Kevin Mitnick ~
• There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
  ~ Lauren Conrad ~
• The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.
  ~ Curt Schilling ~
• Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.
  ~ Jeff Bezos ~
• My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
  ~ Malcolm Turnbull ~
• Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
  ~ Laurence Sterne ~
• Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
  ~ Laurence Sterne ~
• In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
  ~ Walter Lippmann ~
• Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
  ~ Tom Peters ~
• Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
  ~ Tom Peters ~
• I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
  ~ Rita Mae Brown ~
• Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
  ~ Rita Mae Brown ~
• There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
  ~ Charles De Montesquieu ~
• Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
  ~ Brooke Burke ~
• We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
  ~ Henry James ~
• We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
  ~ Henry James ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.
  ~ John Legend ~
• Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.
  ~ John Legend ~
• Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
  ~ Paul Theroux ~
• You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
  ~ Meister Eckhart ~
• You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
  ~ Meister Eckhart ~
• I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
  ~ Rupert Murdoch ~
• Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
  ~ George Will ~
• Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
  ~ George Will ~
• Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
  ~ George Will ~
• However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
  ~ Ted Allen ~
• I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
  ~ Ted Allen ~
• I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
  ~ Ted Allen ~
• I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
  ~ Theodore Bikel ~
• I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
  ~ Theodore Bikel ~
• The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
  ~ Bodhidharma ~
• I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.
  ~ Jenna Bush ~
• I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.
  ~ Jenna Bush ~
• Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
  ~ Imran Khan ~
• Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.
  ~ Mike Huckabee ~
• I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.
  ~ Bobby Flay ~
• It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
  ~ Terry Eagleton ~
• It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
  ~ Terry Eagleton ~
• I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
  ~ Elton John ~
• The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.
  ~ Dominic Monaghan ~
• I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.
  ~ Eric Bana ~
• Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
  ~ Cyril Connolly ~
• Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
  ~ Brad Henry ~
• What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
  ~ Brad Henry ~
• What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
  ~ Brad Henry ~
• What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
  ~ Brad Henry ~
• I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.
  ~ Dan Savage ~
• When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
  ~ Ramakrishna ~
• Fear is the passion of slaves.
  ~ Patrick Henry ~
• Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
  ~ George Saunders ~
• When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
  ~ Alexander Hamilton ~
• Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
  ~ Alexander Hamilton ~
• I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'
  ~ Ricky Williams ~
• Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.
  ~ Kevin Rudd ~
• The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.
  ~ Lenny Kravitz ~
• The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
  ~ Herbert Read ~
• The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
  ~ Herbert Read ~
• "We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1"". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need."
  ~ Danica Patrick ~
• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
  ~ Andre Maurois ~
• I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
  ~ Charles Schumer ~
• Our passion is our strength.
  ~ Billie Joe Armstrong ~