passion Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

65 passion Quotes
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“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
Carl W. Buechner Quotes
“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”
Hebbel Quotes
“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”
John Maxwell Quotes
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Angela Monet Quotes
“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
Mitch Albom Quotes
“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.”
Earl Nightingale Quotes
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: The Nice Valour--Song (act III, sc. 3)
“Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.”
Robert Browning Quotes
Source: Two in the Campagna (st. 12)
“For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.”
George Chapman Quotes
Source: Monsieur D'Olive (act V, sc. 1, l. 8)
“Filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd.”
William Collins Quotes
Source: The Passions (l. 10)
“We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.”
Thomas Dekker Quotes
Source: The Honest Whore (pt. II, act I, sc. 2)
“Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?”
Helen Hunt Jackson (Helen Hunt) Quotes
Source: Vanity of Vanities
“If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes
Source: Maxims (no. 125)
“All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. [Fr., Toutes les passions ne sout autre chose que les divers degres de la chaleur et de la froideur du sang.]”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes
Source: Premier Supplement (VIII)
“Where passion leads or prudence points the way.”
Robert Lowth Quotes
Source: The Choice of Hercules (1)
“Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will Would not admit.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 634)
“Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 174)
“And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 262)
“In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind; Those only fix'd, they first or last obey. The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 207)
“The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 153)
“May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.”
Walter Pope Quotes
Source: The Old Man's Wish
“Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”
Sir Walter Raleigh Quotes
Source: The Silent Lover
“Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)