Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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 Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Henri Frederic Amiel

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
Jose Marti

The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.
Cat Stevens

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas Hobbes

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
Joseph Conrad

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
Rollo May

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
Al Sharpton

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
James M. Barrie

I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.
Heidi Klum

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Our passion is our strength.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Patience is passion tamed.
Lyman Abbott