Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds. — Amy Tan
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. — Rene Descartes
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which… — Walter Pater
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions… — Alfred Jarry
Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is… — James E. Faust
A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to… — Saint Dominic
For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak,… — Franz Liszt
All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control… — Baruch Spinoza
I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance… — Mercy Otis Warren
The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians,… — Edward Everett
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who… — Ann Radcliffe
The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments… — David Hume
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions,… — Alan Keyes
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased. — C.S. Lewis
It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they… — William Hazlitt
In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those… — Baron de Montesquieu
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. — George Berkeley
Whoever wishes to make progress in perfection should use particular diligence in not allowing himself to be led away by his passions, which destroy with… — St. Vincent
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are… — Emile Durkheim
I’m one of those very lucky people who absolutely love what they do for a living. There is no career better suited to my eccentricities,… — Mary Pope Osborne
When I was younger, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was a mentor to me and gave me great advice. The best was to 'work 100 percent, but enjoy… — Allyson Felix
I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new… — Jim Elliot
The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas;… — Edward Gibbon
Wonder is the first of all the passions. — Rene Descartes
Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come. — Elizabeth Taylor

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