What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
—Unknown
Passion is the trigger of success.
—Unknown
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
—Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) French Poet, Politician, Historian
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
—The 14th Dalai Lama (b.1935) Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader, Civil Rights Leader, Philosopher, Author
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
—Russell Simmons (b.1957) American Music Promoter
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
—Roland Barthes (1915–80) French Writer, Critic, Teacher
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
—Denis Diderot (1713–84) French Philosopher, Writer
Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead of employing their passions in the service of their life.
—Richard Steele (1672–1729) Irish Writer, Politician
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
—Orson Welles (1915–85) American Film Director, Actor
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm.
—Vince Lombardi (1913–70) American Football Coach
Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Strong passions are the life of manly virtues. But they need not necessarily be evil because they are passions, and because they are strong. They may be likened to blood horses, that need training and the curb only, to enable those whom they carry to achieve the most glorious triumphs.
—William Gilmore Simms (1806–70) American Poet, Historian, Novelist, Editor
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
A vigorous mind is as necessarily accompanied with violent passions as a great fire with great heat.
—Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman
If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
Winning isn’t everything. Wanting to is.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
The mind by passion driven from its firm hold, becomes a feather to each wind that blows.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
When passion rules, how rare the hours that fall to virtue’s share.
—Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer
Those who wish to burn up their passions must not indulge in sleeping, but must diligently associate themselves with watchfulness. They must also rid themselves of laziness, hypocrisy, merriment and all sensual pleasures together with their elements.
—Buddhist Teaching
I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.
—John Wooden (1910–2010) American Sportsperson
Passion often makes fools of the ablest men, and able men of the mow foolish.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion, conquers reason still.
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet
Anger is the most impotent of passions.—It affects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
—Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–74) English Statesman, Historian
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
—Thomas N. Carruthers
What is man but his passion?
—Robert Penn Warren (1905–89) American Poet, Novelist, Literary Critic
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