Passions Quotes
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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
Thomas Hobbes
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
Honore de Balzac
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I have so many passions. I'm just going to keep trying to go forward and see where they take me.
Gavin Creel
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Lord Byron
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
Thomas Carlyle
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
William Hazlitt
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Most great instigators of social change have intimate personal knowledge of trauma. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind, as do Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Read the life history of any visionary, and you will find insights and passions that came from having dealt with devastation.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
Marcel Proust
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Social media spark a revelation that we, the people, have a voice, and through the democratization of content and ideas we can once again unite around common passions, inspire movements, and ignite change.
Brian Solis
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Thomas Aquinas
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Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.
Scott Weiss
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Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.
Blaise Pascal
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
Mikhail Lermontov
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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
