Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions. — William Sloane Coffin
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent,… — John F. Kennedy
The Founders of the U.S. gave the senators a term of office three times longer than that of a representative precisely to encourage a reflective… — Al Gore
War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions… — Sri Chinmoy
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to… — Robert Green Ingersoll
To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon… — Robert Green Ingersoll
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little… — William Hazlitt
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place… — Lytton Strachey
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the… — Napoleon Bonaparte
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… — Brian Solis
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the… — Tertullian
Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against… — Thomas Aquinas
Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing. — Thomas Hobbes
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed… — Joseph Butler
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm. — Algernon Blackwood
There is nothing wrong with you just because you haven't yet met people who share your interests or outlook on life. Unless you are doing… — Alexandra Robbins
The one who wants to love God has to take care about the purity of the soul, first of all. This purity is attained through… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
Only when we rid ourselves of passions and lust and put the desires of flesh under the control of Spirit, only then we accept the… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life. — Paulo Coelho
The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions — hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity — also ceased to manifest themselves. After a… — Paulo Coelho

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