Quotes on passion
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.
Čapek, Karel
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.
L'Estrange, Roger
Were the passionate visible, all we would go blind.
Teague, Jareb
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
T, Ice
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
McLaughlin, Mignon
Follow your passion, and success will follow you.
Buddhold, Arthur
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Franklin, Benjamin
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
Addams, Glade Byron
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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.
Amiel, Henri