Own Passions Quotes
21 quotes by 21 authors
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
— Samuel Johnson
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Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason…
— Khalil Gibran
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What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his…
— Black Elk
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Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human…
— Uta Hagen
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My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing.…
— Galen Rowell
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Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.
— Sri Aurobindo
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The first step to be taken by one who wishes to follow Christ is, according to Our Lord’s own words, that of renouncing himself -…
— St. Vincent
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The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless?…
— Warren St. John
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... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not acquired the 'mind…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of…
— Peter Berg
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Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.
— Wes Nisker
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Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.
— Tim Ferriss
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Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.
— Thomas Fuller
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What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,…
— William Wordsworth
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The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women,…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed…
— Ethan A. Hitchcock
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To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions.
— Bertrand Russell
Who Wrote These Own Passions Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 21 Own Passions Quotes as follows: