Passion Quotes

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last.

Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof.

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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.

The man who is master of his passions is reason’s slave.

It is easy to fly into a passion – anybody can do that – but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way – that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.