quotations about passion
He whose passions are inflamed looks at nothing beyond the present gratification.
FRANCIS WAYLAND
The Elements of Moral Science
Our passions are the keys of our frame, played upon by external objects.
RICHARD MALTRAVERS
The Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Maltravers
Passion is the most essential part of any team. Not in the sense of some kind of pre-match team speech to get everyone riled up and ready to go. When pundits really analyse on the topic of passion, and really emphasise the importance it had on one game or another, it is not because of its presence but its lacking.
ADAM HILSENRATH
"The fundamentals of sporting passion", Cherwell Online, December 4, 2016
Passion is the genesis of genius.
LILLET WALTERS
Secrets of Successful Speakers
Passion alone the abysses
Lights, while we grope up the rifted
Slopes; our spirits it kisses,
Ere into the deeps we are drifted.
HENRI CAZALIS
"Always"
A man or a woman without passions is like a windmill in a calm--motionless, ghastly, useless.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Written on the Body
A Man in a Passion rides a mad Horse.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1749
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1749
We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet,
Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.
ALFRED AUSTIN
"A Woman's Apology"
For an individual, success comes from wrapping your natural behavioral style and talents around a passion in your life. We like to call it your mint chocolate chip. When you are passionate about what you do and deliver it naturally, you are going to excel at it and get rewarded for it. You stop living vanilla ice cream. Because without passion in your life, your natural style is not focused. Without your natural style, your passion is not enjoyed.
STEVE VAN REMORTEL
"Adviser: Stop living vanilla ice cream", Green Bay Press Gazette, December 1, 2016
Strong passions work wonders when there is a greater strength of reason to curb them.
ABRAHAM TUCKER
An Abridgment of The Light of Nature Pursued
Passion is a starter. It gives you enough motivation to get going. I would advise that you don't "go-out-to-sea" without it.... However, it is important to move from raw to refined passion (it means making raw passion practical and useful). Raw passion is short term. Refined passion has every element of the raw, plus the added advantage of long term, boredom-proof, consistent action. It's not tied to emotional fluctuation. This is the forte of professionals.
SAMUEL MPAMUGO
"Raw passion can harm go-getters", The Kenya Star, November 19, 2016
A man without passion is a statue, not a man.
PHRYNE
attributed, Day's Collacon
When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Make your passion your paycheck.
ANONYMOUS
The great attraction and the great danger of passion is that it is something outside of oneself, a strong wind from nowhere in the face of which the forest of everyday thought and behavior cannot stand.
DAN SIMMONS
Lovedeath
People love what other people are passionate about.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
La La Land
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
CHAMFORT
The Cynic's Breviary
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
JOHN WESLEY
letter to Joseph Benson, October 5, 1770