PASSION QUOTES
quotations about passion
Take heed lest passion sway
Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will
Would not admit.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
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
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
Check your passions, that you may not be punished by them.
EPICTETUS
Fragments
Such return awaits thy passion as thy passion merits.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Rosmunda
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
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
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROT
Discours sur la poésie dramatique
A woman's life begins with her first passion.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Gambara
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
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
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
Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.
RICHARD GARNETT
De Flagello Myrtes
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
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKE
On the Sublime and Beautiful
Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
ANAÏS NIN
diary, February 1932
Do it with passion or not at all.
ANONYMOUS
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
THOMAS DEKKER
The Honest Whore
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