Endurance is the crowning quality And patience all the passion of great hearts.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart given surnames and Christian names and sent to walk the earth.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others but only those who have greater designs.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent generous perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Great passions my dear don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

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

Only passions great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers always on trial for their political lives always required to court their restless constituents.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government but not to the point of being a libertarian.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest logic loses. So expect more meaningless if not harmful 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

It is a fact often observed that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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.

Man is born passionate of body but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Out of chaos God made a world and out of high passions comes a people.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time at all times who suffers harm done to others whose greatest passion is compassion whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.