The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. — Alexander Pope
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. — Kahlil Gibran
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. — Richard Whately
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. — Edmund Burke
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion. — Tacitus
Passion is the model of all my actions. — Philippe Petit
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. — Benjamin Franklin
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. — Samuel Johnson
Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. — Benjamin Franklin
Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable. — Robert Kiyosaki
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food — Guy de Maupassant
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. — Denis Diderot
Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse. — Ovid
Short Ruling Passion Quotes
Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it. — Jürgen Moltmann
Love is the most selfish of all the passions. — Alexandre Dumas
The desire to rule is the mother of heresies. — Saint John Chrysostom
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. — H. G. Wells
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. — Marianne Moore
Ruling Passion Image Quotes
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Pursuing Passion Quotes
Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don't let somebody else dictate your life's path. — Jack Nicklaus
Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion. — Andrew Tan
Only the passion for the dreams, courage to pursue them, determination to succeed, turns them into reality. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours. — Adam Grant
Plant rice when the ground is ready; pursue women when you feel the passion. — Tibetan Proverbs
Every endeavour pursued with passion produces a successful outcome, regardless of the result. For it is not about winning or losing – rather, the effort put forth in producing the outcome. — Matthew Syed
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world. — David Wilkerson
Here’s the dangerous thing about Jesus: He’s not after your behaviour; he’s after your heart. Make no mistake about it. Jesus is going to relentlessly and passionately pursue your heart. Even when your behaviour tricks everybody else, it just doesn’t trick Jesus. He’s coming after the heart. — Sayings
So try to pursue the very things that you are passionate about- that is the difference between good and great! — Shawn Doyle
I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus and passion and ambition and courage. Give it your all. And that will be your path to true success. — John Legend
Passion For Running Quotes
The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them. — Arthur C. Clarke
I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory! — Sasha Azevedo
Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs. — Douglas Coupland
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over.
Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs. — Doug Coupland
I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running. — Cathy Freeman
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race. — Oprah Winfrey
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
I do a lot of running, and I do it every day. I run on a track, I run hills and I work the stair-stepper extremely hard. I do some type of cardio every day. In addition, I have a passion for golf, and that helps me stay fit, too. — Jerry Rice
I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome - it didn't just run itself for the love of the game because soccer is not the No. 1 sport as it is in Europe. — Hope Solo
Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the mental and physical limits striving to be better, to go farther, to give more. — Dean Karnazes
My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about. — Herman Cain
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.
Independent record stores are like a casino where you put down your money and you always win. How amazing to discover gems you didn't know about, to meet someone more passionate than you are, and to feel at home in a place you may never have been to before. I'm convinced they will never lose their place - Long may they rule. — KT Tunstall
The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to
derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes
into debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,
and brings in perennial interest. — Frederick Soddy
[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents...All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions. — Pope Pius XII
You don't follow your passion. You take it with you.
I like a boyish quality in a man, somebody who is still adventurous. But I have no rules. I do not care - within reason - about your chronological age. I care whether you have passion in your life. — Mary Frann
Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fact that you must follow your passion and do something that's close to your heart. And I think that that's very important, well, to be successful and to be happy. — Kumar Mangalam Birla
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. — Alexander Pope
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway. — Alexander Pope
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. — Elisabeth Elliot
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. — Kahlil Gibran
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. — Isabel Allende
Passion... it lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us... passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? — Joss Whedon
He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king — John Milton
The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man. — William Howard Taft
My number one rule in business, and in life, is to enjoy what you do. Running a business involves long hours and hard decisions; if you don't have the passion to keep you going, your business will more than likely fail. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it. — Richard Branson
Calmly take what ill betideth;
Patience wins the crown at length:
Rich repayment him abideth
Who endures in quiet strength.
Brave the tamer of the lion;
Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise;
Bravest he who rules his passions,
Who his own impatience sways. — Johann Gottfried Herder
I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. — Elizabeth Taylor
Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules. — Martha Beck
By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name. — Plato
When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition. — Neil Strauss
It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it. — Chris Hadfield
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions. — James Joyce
The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty. — Alexander Hamilton
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman. — Robert Graves
Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. — Kahlil Gibran
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home. — Shelby Foote
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it. — William Hazlitt
The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes. — Edward Gibbon
When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion. — Laurence Sterne
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination. — David Hume
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame. — William Hazlitt
Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest. — Alexander Pope
Purely sensual love is never true and lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. — Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Passionately obsessed by anything we love - an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love. — Richard Bach
One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail. — Barack Obama
If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing would be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts with which all moralists abound. — David Hume
Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer. — Richard Bach
Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by. — Julian Assange
I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. — Dante Alighieri
For me acting is a passion and an art, and always will only be that. I don't have any rules when it comes to acting. I'll do anything. But it depends on the script. Either I'll have passion for the project or I won't. It's got to fuel me. — Shailene Woodley
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think. — Michel Foucault
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