Quotes about Passion
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
— Samuel Johnson
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
— William Hazlitt
When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.
— Abraham Lincoln
Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.
— John Wesley
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.
— Charles Spurgeon
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
— George Bernard Shaw
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.
— Henry David Thoreau