Passion Quotes

50 quotations about Passion
What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
Soren Kierkegaard · Passion
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld · Passion
If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld · Passion
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld · Passion
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Alphonse De Lamartine · Passion
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Johann Kaspar Lavater · Passion
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Georg C. Lichtenberg · Passion
Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
George Meredith · Passion
None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau · Passion
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
Jean Paul · Passion
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
William Penn · Passion
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope · Passion
Passions are the gales of life.
Alexander Pope · Passion
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Anthony Robbins · Passion
Live with passion!
Anthony Robbins · Passion
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Jean-Paul Sartre · Passion
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers · Passion
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
Eugene W. Smith · Passion
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
Bishop Robert South · Passion
Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau · Passion
Passion is the trigger of success.
Source Unknown · Passion
The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.
Source Unknown · Passion
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire · Passion
Chase your passion, not your pension.
Denis Waitley · Passion
We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
Wilbur Wright · Passion

Authors on Passion

Thomas Adams Henri Frederic Amiel Honore De Balzac Christian Nevell Bovee Sir Thomas Browne George Burns Lord Byron Joseph Campbell Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort Marcus T. Cicero Denis Diderot Ralph Waldo Emerson Frederico Fellini Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle Thomas Fuller Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Oliver Goldsmith Georg Hegel Claude A. Helvetius Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.