One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Max Weber

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.
Kevyn Aucoin

But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.
Steve Spurrier

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
George Mason

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis Diderot

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Horace

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

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.
Isabelle Adjani

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.
Isabelle Adjani

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Isabelle Adjani

The strongest passion is fear.
Jean de La Fontaine

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de La Fontaine

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
James Russell Lowell

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
Israel Zangwill

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Thomas Fuller

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.
Tina Weymouth

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.
Mel Gibson

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
Zakk Wylde

I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.
Andrea Bocelli