(1903 quotes found)
“None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.”
Comte de Mirabeau
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
Bertrand Russell
“Passion, I see, is catching.”
William Shakespeare
“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love”
Lord Byron
“When genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot”
D.H. Lawrence
“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.”
Earl Nightingale
“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
Lao Tzu
“It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow