Passion Quotes
If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.La Rochefoucauld
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
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.Rufus Choate
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
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
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.Robert Sternberg
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - As the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. Maxims.La Rochefoucauld
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.Henry Ward Beeche
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.Seneca
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.Georges Clemenceau
Compassion is no substitute for justice.Rush Limbaugh
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.Orson Welles
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
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.Benjamin Disraeli
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.Patricia Moyes
The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.George Sand
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of Ten Best.H. Allen Smith
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.G. M. Trevelyan
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.Alexander Pope
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu, On Leveling All Things
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
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.U Thant
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
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Facts are stubborn things and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence.John Adams
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.Jeremy Taylo
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.Andr Gide
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.Simone Weil
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.Swami Sivanada
I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.Orson Welles, 1966
Never underestimate the power of passion.Eve Sawye
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.Aesop
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
