Passion Management Quotes

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust.

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them.

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

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.

Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Whoever wishes to make progress in perfection should use particular diligence in not allowing himself to be led away by his passions, which destroy with one hand the spiritual edifice which is rising by the labors of the other. But to succeed well in this, resistance should be begun while the passions are yet weak; for after they are thoroughly rooted and grown up, there is scarcely any remedy.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

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.

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.