32 Passion Quotes to share with friends and relatives

Live the ordinary days with passion and exuberance. – Dr.SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. – Benjamin Franklin

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Follow your passion, and success will follow you. – Terri Guillemets

The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. – Yves Saint Laurent

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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-Frédéric Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. – Sheila Graham

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. – Jack Kerouac

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. – Christian Nestell Bovee

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. – HonorÃ© de Balzac

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. – Jean de la Fontaine

For passion has come to the verge and leaps headlong to the blind abyss, yet gathers thereby the strength of deeps, and eddies a moment and swirls and sweeps till peril is one with bliss! – Harriet L. Childe Pemberton

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I feel my body, my mind, weighted down — all is heavy — but my blood, my inner fire, my passion, the little unburdened kid in me, patiently waits to burst free. Some of us die never having burst. – Terri Guillemets

Renew your passions daily. – Terri Guillemets

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. – Garrison Keillor

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. – Thomas Adams

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. – Aesop