A Creator is vision-focused and passion-motivated. To really live into your Creator self, you are called to do the inner work necessary to find your own sense of purpose—whatever touches your heart and holds meaning for you.
—David Emerald
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
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human “brain” with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human “heart” with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.
—The 14th Dalai Lama (b.1935) Tibetan Buddhist Leader, Civil Rights Advocate, Author
Someone’s always saying, “It’s not whether you win or lose,” but if you feel that way, you’re as good as dead.
—James Caan (1940–2022) American Film Actor
The passions are the only orators who never fail to persuade.—They are nature’s art of eloquence, the rules of which never fail; and the weakest man, moved by passion, is more eloquent than the strongest who has none.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
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 (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
Whenever a Noble One reaches the shore (destination) of the 2 kinds of phenomena (Mundane & Supra-mundane), all his binding ropes of passion come to an end.
—Buddhist Teaching
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which the others are subordinate. Discover this governing passion in every individual; and when you have found the master passion of a man, remember never to trust to him where that passion is concerned.
—Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters
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 define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace — a connection to what matters.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
He who is shot by an arrow (of passion) has to run in all directions. Having taken it out, he no more runs nor sinks.
—Buddhist Teaching
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
Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart. ‘Tis women’s whole existence.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
—Orson Welles (1915–85) American Film Director, Actor
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
—Charles Kingsley (1819–75) English Clergyman, Academic, Historian, Novelist
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy — I don’t disparage envy but I don’t accept it as legitimately my master.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) American Jurist, Author
The passions are the winds that fill the sails of the vessel.—They sink it at times; but without them it would be impossible to make way.—Many things that are dangerous here below, are still necessary.
—Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader
All the passions, says an old writer, “are such near neighbors, that if one of them is on fire the others should send for the buckets.” Thus love and hate being both passions, the one is never safe from the spark that sets the other ablaze.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician
The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way.
—Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
There is no time for cut-and- dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
—Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French Fashion Designer
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
—Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author
When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
—Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) French Poet, Politician, Historian
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.—Thus they become, as in the ancient fable, the harnessed steeds that bear the chariot of the sun.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
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