Passion Quotes
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.Buddha
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.G. M. Trevelyan
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.Bette Davis
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.Paul Johannes Tillich
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.Azel Backus
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.John Adams
Judgement, not passion should prevail.Epicharmus
Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.Oliver Bevan
Facts are stubborn things and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence.John Adams
There is only one universal passion fear.George Bernard Shaw
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.The Dalai Lama
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding.Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own!
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.Rita Mae Brown
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.Simone Weil
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.Thomas Fulle
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.U Thant
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.Denis Diderot
cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit.Maynard James Keenan, in the song "Schism", by Tool
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.Georges Clemenceau
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.Robert
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.Patricia Moyes
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.Martha Graham
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.Anthony Powell
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
