Passion Quotes
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.Anne McCaffrey
Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined.Blessing Irish
Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.Azel Backus
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!
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.Alexander Pope
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.Martin Luther King
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.Eric Hoffe
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
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
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.Bernard M. Baruch
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.The Dalai Lama
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 strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.Rita Mae Brown
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.Niccolo Machiavelli
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
In music the passions enjoy themselves.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - - How passionately I hate them!Albert Einstein
What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.William Wharton
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.Robert Sternberg
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
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.John Adams
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.Rose Dorothy Franken
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
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.Oliver Bevan
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.Buddha
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.John Milton
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.Roland Barthes, Esprit
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.Pythagoras
Compassion is the basis of all morality.Arthur Schopenhaue
