Quotes About Passion

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

— Robert J. Sternberg

Mencius enumerated the three “mature virtues” of his “great man” as “wisdom, compassion, and courage.” I should like to lop off one syllable and regard as the qualities of a great soul passion, wisdom, and courage.

— Lin Yutang

A master passion is the love of news.

— George Crabbe

The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers reason still.

— Alexander Pope

Passions are vices or virtues in their highest powers.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe