PASSION QUOTES

quotations about passion

Passion quote

Take heed lest passion sway
Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will
Would not admit.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name
The passion bears, its influence is the same;
Where things exceed your hope or fall below,
You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

HORACE

Epistles

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It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary

Tags: Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort


Check your passions, that you may not be punished by them.

EPICTETUS

Fragments

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Such return awaits thy passion as thy passion merits.

VITTORIO ALFIERI

Rosmunda

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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

DENIS DIDEROT

Discours sur la poésie dramatique

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There are seasons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person's personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests ... By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

BRIAN SWIMME

The Universe is a Green Dragon

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Let the passion drive you through any fear and obstacles that get in your way. Have confidence in your passion as a tool of strength. Passion is stronger than fear. Let passion rule your day.

LARRY JACOBSON

"The happiest retirees have learned this lesson", Market Watch, November 23, 2016


Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.

SAUL BELLOW

The Guardian, September 10, 1997

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Passion can be blinding when not properly appropriated. If one is not careful, the same passion that launched the idea could destroy the dream.

SAMUEL MPAMUGO

"Raw passion can harm go-getters", The Kenya Star, November 19, 2016


A woman's life begins with her first passion.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Gambara

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Understanding should go first and find out the way, then passion should be as wings to carry us on in it.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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Do it with passion or not at all.

ANONYMOUS


Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

EDMUND BURKE

On the Sublime and Beautiful

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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.

ANAÏS NIN

diary, February 1932

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I cannot imagine following any leader who does not have passion as a key aspect of their leadership philosophy. First, they would bore me. Second, they would cause me to lower my energy level, and finally, they would make me worry as to why they were not more excited about both the present and the future.

RYAN T. SAUERS

"Passionate Leadership: Makes the Difference", Printing Impressions, December 1, 2016


We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.

THOMAS DEKKER

The Honest Whore

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