Best gains & passion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.”

Seems Passion Pleasure Objects Ambition Gains Envy Luxury Covetousness Vexation

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.”

Source: The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment

“The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.”

Facts Passion Gains Gold Accounts Harder Greed Millionaire Whim Extravagance

Author:Honore de Balzac

“A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.”

Passion Courses Interest Gains Personal Growth Hobbies Consuming Abomination Personal Gain

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.”

Persons Desire Passion Gains Universal Greed All Time Avarice

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best interests of his constituents and our country. From the committee room to the Senate chamber, Senator Specter offered a voice of reason and passion in every debate - always willing to reach across the aisle and work across party lines to get the job done, regardless of political gamesmanship or gain.”

“She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.”

World Way Mind Heart Art Seems Passion Love Is Gains Raises Noble Esteem Generous Grounded Crooked Begets Subtlety True Love Is Plainness Generous Heart

Author:Theresa Villiers

“War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.”

World War Ends Fall Passion Grows Blood Spring Deserve Gains Guilty Consideration Shed Calamity Fury Indulgence

Book:A Sermon on War: delivered before the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, May 30, 1816, etc

Source: A Sermon on War: delivered before the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, May 30, 1816, etc

“It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.”

Passion Grows Blood Spring Gains Shed Fury Indulgence

Book:The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...

Source: The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...

“Each time we deny our female functions, each time we deviate from our bodies' natural path, we move father away from out feminine roots. Our female bodies need us now more than ever, and we too need the wisdom, the wildness, the passion, the joy, the vitality and the authenticity that we can gain through this most intimate of reconciliations.”

Needs Body Moving Joy Passion Father Natural Path Gains Female Roots Function Deny Authenticity Intimate Feminine Vitality Reconciliation Wildness Deviate Female Body

Author:Sarah J. Buckley

“A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as great presumption to send our passions upon God's errands, as to palliate them with God's name... We are too ready to retailiate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us try then what Love will do: for if men did once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.”

Ifs Men Should Trying Firsts Believe May Mean Ends Passion Evil Winning Names Force Hurt Information Ready Gains Forgiving Harm Presumption Laurels Believe In Love Sanctify Errands

Author:William Penn

“It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.”

People Thinking Giving Self Film Passion Gains Negative Obsession Thinking About You Negative Experiences

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Whoever with fear of God corrects and directs a sinner gains virtue for himself, that of opposition to sin. But whoever insults a sinner with rancor and without good will falls, according to a spiritual law, into the same passion with the sinner.”

Inspirational Christian Spiritual Law Fall Passion Religious Sin Virtue Gains Insult Opposition Sinner Orthodox Good Will Rancor

Author:Marcus Eremita

“You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?”

World Fall Passion Chance Too Much Masters Gains Aspiration Reproach

Book:A Christmas carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas: With original art and narration by Jon Langford

Source: A Christmas carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas: With original art and narration by Jon Langford

“A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.”

Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918

“India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age”

Long Age Pain Passion Pleasure Known Childhood Youth Gains India Innocence Maturity Abandon Ripe Pain And Pleasure Insouciance

Book:The Quintessence of Nehru

Source: The Quintessence of Nehru

“The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.”

Knows Feels Country Spirit Passion Business Principles Acceptance Gains Selfish Commerce

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.”

Love Mind Self Philosophy Might Passion Literature Teach Gains Educational Self Knowledge Pondering Epoch Love Passion

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.”

Ifs Mind Looks Heart Happiness Form Passion Peace Walks Watches Practice Clear Conflict Gains Absolutes Misery Core Unhappiness Mastery Frame Of Mind

Author:Hugh Prather

“So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.”

Thinking Age Form Suffering Passion Events Projects Expectations Gains Train Prime Delay Indulge Shortness Shortness Of Life Prime Of Life

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.”

“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.”

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