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  • 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.

    Strong   Passion   Men  
  • Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

    "5 Rules for the New Year" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2013.
  • 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.

    Strong   Passion   Men  
    Aristotle (2012). “Rhetoric”, p.84, Courier Corporation
  • Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

    Strong   Fear   Passion  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Short Story Collections by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped and Catriona”, p.104, e-artnow
  • 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.

    Passion   Men   Iron  
    Entry for December 17, 1856. "Journal Intime". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1882.
  • Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumph” and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.

    Strong   Passion   Animal  
    "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain". Book by Oliver Sacks, October 16, 2007.
  • 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.

  • 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!

    Strong   Grief   Passion  
    George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.8
  • He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

    Strong   Anger   Passion  
    Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
  • Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart.

    Twitter post from Nov 16, 2010
  • The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

    "The 32nd Infantry Division in World War II". Book by Harold Whittle Blakeley, 1957.
  • 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.

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

    Art   Passion   Romance  
  • A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

    William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics
  • You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.123, Hamilton Books
  • I have a really strong passion for what I do. I don’t see myself doing anything else.

  • No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

    Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.118, Cambridge University Press
  • 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).

    Art   Strong   Sex  
    Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.286, Routledge
  • Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

    "Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard" by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.
  • I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

    Sports   Strong   Passion  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    John Quincy Adams (1802). “An Oration, delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1802, at the anniversary commemoration of the first landing of our ancestors at that place”, p.13
  • Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

  • Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

    "Kris Kristofferson: What I've Learned". Interview with Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. May 1999.
  • 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.

  • Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.

    Strong   Passion   Army  
    Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet Todd (1989). “The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft”, NYU Press
  • None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

  • 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.

    True Love   Wise   Strong  
  • 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.

    Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”
  • I'd take 12 guys who had a strong passion for the game over 12 guys who don't respect the game.

    Strong   Passion   Games  
  • The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

    Love   Strong   Passion  
    Christine Allison, Susan Sontag (1978). “The benefactor: a novel”, Delta
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