Passions Quotes
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
Thomas Hobbes
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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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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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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Lord Byron
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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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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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If you have two or three real passions, don't feel like you have to pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.
Austin Kleon
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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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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
Thomas Hobbes
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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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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Thomas Aquinas
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My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role.
Danielle Cormack
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Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
Marcel Proust
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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
