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• Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Wisest Man, Inspire

  "Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, no. 7, 1665-1678.

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• Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "A Square Deal". Theodore Roosevelt's speech to farmers at the New York State Agricultural Association in Syracuse, New York, September 7, 1903.

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• Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

  Horace

  Love, Advice

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• The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead.

  John Boorman

  Doe, Unbearable, Marking Time

  "Projections: A Forum for Film Makers, Volume 1". Book edited by John Boorman and Walter Donohue, 1992.

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• He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dog, Horse, Littles

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 49

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  Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book II". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.

  James Altucher

  Rejection, Magic, Wish

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• The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.

  Terry Orlick

  Inspirational, Heart, Giving

  Orlick, Terry (2015). “In Pursuit of Excellence 5th Edition”, p.26, Human Kinetics

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• If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

  Wanda Sykes

  Inspirational, Wish, Feels

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• Our passion is our strength.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

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• A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Truth, Cost

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• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Funny, Life

  "A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost". Book by Sydney Cox, 1957.

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• There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

  Eric Hoffer

  Shrinking, Literature, Fugitive

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

  James Joyce

  Birthday, Other Worlds, Age

  James Joyce, Laurence Davies (1993). “Dubliners”, p.160, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Worry, Greed

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• Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Spiritual, Love Is, Essence

  Wynton Marsalis, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (2009). “To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road”, p.63, Random House

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• Art is a passion or it is nothing.

  Robert Fry

  Art, Art Is

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  Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Change, Failure

  "The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin" by Evelyn J. Hinz, (p. 40), 1971.

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• You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive.

  Mac Anderson

  Dream, Fake, Alive

  Linda Ellis, Mac Anderson (2012). “The Dash: Making a Difference with Your Life from Beginning to End”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In music the passions enjoy themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Jazz, Enjoy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.274, Modern Library

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• 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

  Revenge, Thinking, Devil

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The letters of George Santayana”, p.150, MIT Press

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• We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mind, Welcome, Duty

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

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• If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in need. If you're going to question something, question authority. If you're going to lose something, lose your inhibitions. If you're going to gain something, gain respect and confidence. And if you're going to hate something, hate the false idea that you are not capable of your dreams.

  Daniel Goldston

  Inspirational, Confidence, Dream

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

  Edmund Burke

  Soul, Intuition, Fame

  Edmund Burke, John Shebbeare (1776). “An Answer to the Printed Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; spoken in the House of Commons, April 19, 1774, etc. By John Shebbeare”, p.191

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• As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Long, Feelings

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.21, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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