passion quotes

“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.”

— Christina Aguilera

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ”

— Aristotle

“The law is reason, free from passion.”

— Aristotle

“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

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”

— Herbert George Wells

“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”

— Jane Austen

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”

— Confucius

“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”

— Dalai Lama

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

— Dalai Lama

“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.”

— Andre Gide

“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.”

— Horace

“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”

— Coco Chanel

“In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.”

— Stendhal

“The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ”

— Stendhal

“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”

— Honore de Balzac

“The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.”

— Honore de Balzac

“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”

— Honore de Balzac

“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.”

— Moliere

“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”

— Aldous Huxley

“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”

— Aesop

“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”

— Lord Byron

“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ”

— Lord Byron

passion quotes

“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”

“Our true passions are selfish.”

“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

“Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.”

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ”

“The law is reason, free from passion.”

“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.”

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”

“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”

“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

“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.”

“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.”

“Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.”

“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”

“In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.”

“The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ”

“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”

“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”

“The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.”

“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. ”

“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”

“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. ”

“There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.”

“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”

“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. ”

“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”

“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”

“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ”