Passions - Quotes

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse. - Benjamin Franklin

A man or a woman without passions is like a windmill in a calm – motionless, ghastly, useless. - Abraham Miller

A person who has not passed through the inferno of their passions has never overcome them. - Carl Jung

All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet. - George Eliot

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young. - Oscar Wilde

As a storm conceals the glories of the sun and defaces the beauty of the landscape, even so do maddening passions deform the soul, bearing along with their impetuous waves both pestilence and death. - William Scott Downey

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. - Antisthenes

By following your passion, we find our purpose. - Paul S Boynton

Chase your passion, not your pension. - Denis Waitley

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

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. - Anthony J. D’Angelo

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

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. - Claud-Adrian Helvetius

Everyone's got to be passionate about something, or they're not worth shit. - Joseph Finder

Find something you are passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. - Unknown

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams. - Donovan Bailey

He is a Governor that governs his Passions, and he a Servant that serves them. - Benjamin Franklin

Human passion is a heavy working charge of electricity, which runs safely and profitably through the cable reason; but, if the cable is broken, the current becomes dangerous. - Austin O’Malley

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable. - Stephen Fry

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it. - Vittorio Alfieri

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. - Benjamin Franklin

If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you. - T. Alan Armstrong

If you can’t figure your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose. - J. D. Jakes

If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it. - Wanda Skyes

If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. Passion can’t be faked and it can’t be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless. - Unknown

If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

It is madness to think that we can fix an end to passions which we cannot control at their beginning. - Seneca

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. - T. S. Eliot

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them. - Marcel Proust

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 

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. - Sir Roger L’Estrange

Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions. - Benjamin Disreali

Many people in reasoning on the passions make a continual appeal to common sense. But passion is without common sense, and we must frequently discard the one in speaking of the other. - William Hazlitt

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it. - Paul Newman

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

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

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. - Donald Trump

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. - Jon Bon Jovi

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. - E. M. Forster

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

Our passions are, in truth, like the phoenix. When the old one burns away, the new one rises out of its ashes at once. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last. - Nicholas Sparks

Passion gives me moments of wholeness. - Anais Nin

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. - Oprah Winfrey

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks. - Yo-Yo Ma

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. - William Penn

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. - Robert Sternberg

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Passion ungoverned by Reason is Madness. - Benjamin Whichcote

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion is the source of our finest moments ... the joy of love … the clarity of hatred … and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd truly be dead. - Joss Whedon

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. - Unknown

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason. - Thomas Hobbes

The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way. - Plato

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquillity she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph. - Norman MacDonald

The value of passion, like fire, is judged finally by the amount of warmth and light it creates. Fanatics, like forest fires, burn bright but destroy all in their path that is tender and green. To be useful, fire must be confined. To live passionately, we must develop discipline; forge bonds of commitment. Passion is inseparable from compassion. - Unknown

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel. - George Eliot

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it’s the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson. - Anthony Robbins

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions – does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread. - George Eliot

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. - Joseph Addison

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

We have no more control over the duration of our passions than we do over the duration of our life. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable. - D. H. Lawrence

When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible. - Howard Schultz

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. - Henri Frederic Amiel

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out. - Steve Jobs

You have to rely on your preparation. You got to really be passionate and try to prepare more than anyone else, and put yourself in a position to succeed, and when the moment comes you got to enjoy, relax, breathe and rely on your preparation so that you can perform and not be anxious or filled with doubt. - Steve Nash