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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
-Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau
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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
-Earl Nightingale
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
-Blaise Pascal
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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
-Blaise Pascal
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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
-Jean Paul
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
-William Penn
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
-Alexander Pope
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Passions are the gales of life.
-Alexander Pope
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
-Alexander Pope
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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
-Ezra Pound
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PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
So, when affection yields discourse, it seems
The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
They that are rich in words, in words discover
That they are poor in that which makes a lover.
-Sir Walter Raleigh
The Silent Lover
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I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.
-Mary Lou Retton
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There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
-Anthony Robbins
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
-Anthony Robbins
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Live with passion!
-Anthony Robbins
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All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
Fr., Toutes les passions ne sout autre chose que les divers degres de la chaleur et de la froideur du sang.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Premier Supplement(VIII)
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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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
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
-George Santayana
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.
-Charles M. Schwab
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Books about Passion
