Passion Quotations
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| Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! | |||
| - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | |||
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| Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. | |||
| - Honoré de Balzac | |||
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| He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. | |||
| - Cicero | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. | |||
| - Epictetus | |||
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| If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. | |||
| - Benjamin Franklin | |||
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| I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love. | |||
| - Terri Guillemets | |||
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| But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. | |||
| - Nathaniel Hawthorne | |||
| Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. | |||
| - Nathaniel Hawthorne | |||
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| Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. | |||
| - Aldous Huxley | |||
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| You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. | |||
| - Garrison Keillor | |||
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| The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. | |||
| - Yves Saint Laurent | |||
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| Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. | |||
| - D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
| We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King. | |||
| - John Milton | |||
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| In music the passions enjoy themselves. | |||
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |||
| The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. | |||
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. | |||
| - Dorothy L. Sayers | |||
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| It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. | |||
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |||
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| The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. | |||
| - Alfred Lord Tennyson | |||
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| Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. | |||
| - John Wesley | |||
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| It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. | |||
| - Rebecca West | |||
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| Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. | |||
| - Georg Wilhelm | |||
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| Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. | |||
| - Oprah Winfrey | |||
| I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk. | |||
| - Oprah Winfrey | |||