Browsing Topic Best Strong Passion Quotes

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control…They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante’s sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).

The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual efforts.

He who, with strong passions, remains chaste–he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive–these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.

Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!

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.

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

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

None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Follow your passion. Nothing – not wealth, success, accolades or fame – is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don’t enjoy.

It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.

I have a really strong passion for what I do. I don’t see myself doing anything else.

I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I’m really a student.

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

I’d take 12 guys who had a strong passion for the game over 12 guys who don’t respect the game.