PASSION QUOTES VII

quotations about passion

The man who will not give up his passions, who clings to anger, unkindness, sensuality, pride, vanity self-indulgence, for the momentary pleasure which their gratification affords him is a spiritual miser; he cannot have any spiritual comforts.

JAMES ALLEN

Byways of Blessedness

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Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.

JOHN BOORMAN

Projections


If passion is a drug, your startup should be OD'ing on it all the time! If there's something you aren't passionate about, it's really hard to come to work, feel motivated, and full of energy. So, passion is almost an underlying requirement to form great culture as people driven by passion are usually able to do well even in new domains and uncharted territories.

VINOD MUTHUKRISHNAN

"Culture begets success. Or does it?", Your Story, December 10, 2016


The intensity of passion often defies logic. Gripped by its urgency, you feel the heat in your bones. It's an intoxicating drive that can only be appeased with action.

SAMUEL MPAMUGO

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


Men utter a vast amount of slander against their physical nature, and attempt to repair deficient virtue by maiming their animal passions. These are to be trained, guided, restrained, but never crucified or exterminated, for they are the soil in which we were planted.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

KRISTIN HANNAH

Distant Shores


My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

ALLEN GINSBERG

journal, July 30, 1947


We may refute errors, but never passions.

ALEXANDRE RUDOLPHE VINET

Outlines of Theology


Passion doth sometimes whirl the torch of Love, lest into Friendship fade the waning flame.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes

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Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

WALTER RALEIGH

The Silent Lover

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Passion is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary

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Passion may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

WILLIAM PENN

Fruits of Solitude

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Strong passions work wonders when there is a greater strength of reason to curb them.

ABRAHAM TUCKER

An Abridgment of The Light of Nature Pursued


We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet,
Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.

ALFRED AUSTIN

"A Woman's Apology"

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Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

DORIS LESSING

Shikasta

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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.... It more than anything deprives us of the use of our judgment; for it raises a dust very hard to see through. Like wine, whose lees fly by being jogg'd, it is too muddy to drink.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

LILLET WALTERS

Secrets of Successful Speakers


Passion and reason are ever at war.

ROBERT BAGE

attributed, Day's Collacon