Sayings about Passion
The most useful holy war is the one fought against your own passions. ~ Arabian Proverb
If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~ Chinese Proverb
Govern your passions, or they will govern you. ~ Latin Proverbs
The virtue of a woman does not go deep but her passion knows no limit. ~ Chinese Proverb
Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost. ~ Traditional Proverb
The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them. ~ Saying
A man without passion is no son of Adam. ~ Iranian Proverbs
Who is strong? He who subdues his passions. ~ The Talmud
Passion is the trigger of success. ~ Saying
Quotations about Passion
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Passion is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces. ~ Eliza Cook
What passion cannot Music raise and quell? ~ John Dryden
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
I flush with heaving passion’s strange delight, yet find contentment lost in appetite. ~ Edwin Leibfreed
The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason. ~ Thomas Hobbes
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man. ~ Aristotle Quotes
He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act. ~ Claude A. Helvetius
Human character is smaller now, people don’t have durable passions; they’ve replaced passions with excitement. ~ Saul Bellow
The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules. ~ Henry Brooke
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.~ Eric Hoffer
We must act out passion before we can feel it. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Who does not believe his first passion eternal? ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. ~ Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion. ~ William Shakespeare
Passion is absolutely necessary to achieve any kind of long-lasting success. I know this from experience. If you don’t have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Is that how you want to live your life? ~ Donald Trump Quotes
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
None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness. ~ Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. ~ Donald Trump Quotes
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. ~ Denis Diderot
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. ~ Bishop Robert South
There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us … like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel. ~ George Eliot
It is the passions that do and undo everything. ~ Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
Passion doesn’t look beyond the moment of its existence. ~ John Christian Bovee
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. ~ Richard Whately
Chase your passion, not your pension. ~ Denis Waitley
Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. ~ Confucius Quotes
The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. ~ Yves Saint Laurent
Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal. ~ Andre Maurois
A willing heart adds feather to the heel. ~ Joanna Baillie
A man or a woman without passions is like a windmill in a calm–motionless, ghastly, useless. ~ Abraham Miller
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives. ~ Sir Richard Steele
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions. ~ Jean Paul Richter
In music the passions enjoy themselves. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Great passions are hopeless diseases. That which could cure them is the first thing to make them really dangerous. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
The passions are the voice of the body. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Our passions are, in truth, like the phoenix. When the old one burns away, the new one rises out of its ashes at once. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Passions are the gales of life. ~ Alexander Pope
What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it’s the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson. ~ Anthony Robbins
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. ~ Thomas Adams
It is madness to think that we can fix an end to passions which we cannot control at their beginning. ~ Seneca
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. ~ Nelson Mandela
If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. ~ Alexander Herzen
Check your passions, that you may not be punished by them. ~ Epictetus
The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way. Bile makes man passionate and sick; but without bile man could not live. ~ Voltaire Quotes
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ~ Edmund Burke
Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it. ~ Paul Newman
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. ~ Carl Jung
Everyone’s got to be passionate about something, or they’re not worth shit. ~ Joseph Finder
Passion ungoverned by Reason is Madness. ~ Benjamin Whichcote
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. ~ Denis Diderot
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. ~ Aldous Huxley
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. ~ Roger L’Estrange
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. ~ Georg Hegel
With men passion is all at the beginning and with women it is all along. ~ Anita Brookner
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. ~ William Hazlitt
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet. ~ George Eliot
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
I think if you find your passion and you go with it you are rewarded. ~ Kirby Larson
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We are never like angels till our passion dies. ~ Thomas Dekker
When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable. ~ D. H. Lawrence
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ~ Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
It would be beneficial for us to know what all our passions make us do. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death. ~ Sir Philip Sidney
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ~ The Ice Opinion
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite. ~ George Eliot
Passion is for holidays, not homecoming. ~ Jeanette Winterson
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions. ~ Chamfort
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. ~ Thomas Fuller
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after. ~ Jonathan Swift
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ~ Federico Fellini
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. ~ Rita Mae Brown
Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest. ~ Isaac Watts
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. ~ Blaise Pascal
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~ Honore De Balzac
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. ~ John Wesley
Live with passion! ~ Anthony Robbins
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Passion is the genesis of genius. ~ Anthony Robbins
Understanding should go first and find out the way, then passion should be as wings to carry us on in it. ~ Benjamin Whichcote
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. ~ Sir Thomas Browne
Great passions are incurable diseases. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe