Passion Quotes

Reason is the slave of passion.

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

There is a passion in you that scares me.

My dad introduced me to the game, gave me a stick. Since then I've had a passion for it.

The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.

When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

Passion doesn't create commitment; commitment creates passion. To what are you committed?

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.

I love to cook; that's my passion.

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

You can't manufacture passion or "motivate" people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another." pg 69 Tomas to Vlad

I've always been a multi-passionate woman, so my passion for business existed right alongside my passion for dance.

The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

Passion - eventually it cools.

To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.