Strong Passion Quotes

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

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men, Iron

  Entry for December 17, 1856. "Journal Intime". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1882.

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• Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational Life, Self Esteem, Live Life

  "Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard" by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.

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

  Donovan Bailey

  Dream, Hard Work, Passion

  "I don’t miss running, says Donovan Bailey". Interview with Paul Irish, www.thestar.com. November 28, 2011.

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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  Ferdinand Foch

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Passion, Romance

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• You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

  Ken Kesey

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.123, Hamilton Books

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• Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart.

  David Archuleta

  Laughter, Passion, Heart

  Twitter post from Nov 16, 2010

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• 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!

  George Crabbe

  Strong, Grief, Passion

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.8

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• 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.

  Ellen G. White

  True Love, Wise, Strong

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• 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

  Strong, Passion, Silence

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

  Pythagoras

  Inspirational, Strength, Passion

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• There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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

  Kris Kristofferson

  Love, Happiness, Laughter

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

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

  Jonathan Sacks

  Passion, Wealth, Lifetime

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

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

  Zendaya

  Strong, Passion

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

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Strength, Strong, Passion

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• Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  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

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

  Tony Bennett

  Strong, Passion, Students

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• 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.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Strong, Anger, Passion

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Strong, Passion

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

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• 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.

  Oliver Sacks

  Strong, Passion, Animal

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

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• With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

  Oscar Wilde

  Strong, Passion, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.219, Diversion Books

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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.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Strong, Passion, Men

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