Quotes about passion
passion successful law
Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves; but in none of them were they ever more successful than in the invention and establishment of the canon and the feudal law. John Adams
passion differences people
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference? John Adams
passion patriotic law
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. John Adams
passion artist creative
Creative artists have great passion. Jack Welch
passion self safety
By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings. Louise J. Kaplan
passion past issues
The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to the passions and ideals that bind individuals to new family units, to their communities, to the species, to nature, to the cosmos. Therefore, given half a chance, the revolution at issue in adolescence becomes a revolution of transformation, not of annihilation. Louise J. Kaplan
passion rather
And his passion is the law, rather than conservatism.
passion rejection magic
The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic. James Altucher
passion people doe
People look for their passions. But often, the passions find you. How does your # passion find you? When you are good at something, you get passionate about it. That’s it. James Altucher
passion age riches
Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age. James Anthony Froude
passion psychosis community
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society. Jacques Lacan
passion emotional kind
For me the music is not so much anger as much as it is of passion. And I've always associated that kind of intense emotional output with music just because the nature of the music that's attracted me as far as live. Henry Rollins
passion men young
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. Henry Adams
passion flames names
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? Helen Hunt Jackson
passion mind body
Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body. Hazrat Inayat Khan
passion ifs
If you've got nothing else, passion will get you through. Henry Cavill
passion
Food is a passion. Food is love. Hector Elizondo
passion design back-when
I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact. Hedi Slimane
passion priorities music-is
Music is my passion. It's my priority. I love it. Mandy Moore
passion mind mastery
To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. Mahatma Gandhi
passion men animal
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate. Mahatma Gandhi
passion leader mets
When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion. John C. Maxwell
passion vision possibility
Vision without passion is a picture without possibilities. John C. Maxwell
passion remembered
You will be remembered in life only for your passions! John C. Maxwell
passion thinking people
Sometimes I hear people talk about discipline of self and I think, if you don't have passion, I might discipline myself for a week or two but only passion will hold me steady. John C. Maxwell
passion ninety-nine giving
Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest! John C. Maxwell
passion thinking
I think that self-discipline has to be accompanied by passion. John C. Maxwell
passion thinking discipline
I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things. John C. Maxwell
passion simple people
There is definitely a connection between finding your passion and reaching your potential. People ask me all the time, 'John, how do I know what I am meant to do in life?' The answer is really simple: Energy and Excellence. When you experience unbounded energy in what you are doing, when you are driven to excellence in your work and love what you do - then you can rest assured that you have found your passion and are definitely in pursuit of your full potential. John C. Maxwell
passion judging intellectual
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected. John Adams
passion errors prejudice
A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power. John Adams
passion pride sacrifice
Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they stand in competition with the rights of society. John Adams
passion men rich-or-poor
The law no passion can disturb. 'Tis void of desire and fear, lust and anger. 'Tis mens sine affectu, written reason, retaining some measure of the divine perfection. It does not enjoin that which pleases a weak, frail man, but, without any regard to persons, commands that which is good and punishes evil in all, whether rich or poor, high or low. John Adams