Quotes About Passion

#1. As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Benjamin Disraeli

#2. The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

Charles De Gaulle

#3. Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#4. Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

Katharine Graham

#5. This is not the proper place to begin speaking of this new passion of Ivan Fyodorovich's, which later affected his whole life: it could all serve as the plot for another story, for a different novel, which I do not even know that I shall ever undertake.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

#7. It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of feeling and passion. [An anarchist]

Joseph Conrad

#8. Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.

Louie Giglio

#9. You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.

Ann Voskamp

#10. Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.

David Hume

#11. Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

Honore De Balzac

#12. What do you mean, You have No Dreams?
The Truth is, you have No Courage.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#13. She had a passion for all people who did anything to perfection.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#14. This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

Lakshmi Mittal

#15. Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.

Randall Robinson

#16. Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat.

Pooja Ruprell

#17. Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters ... You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

Blake Mycoskie

#18. To reach great heights, we must refuse the negative opinions of people and passionately pursue your destiny.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

Maya Angelou

#20. It's not a dream,
But the reality that makes our passion
As a lamp shadow - no - no lamp, the sun.
What the world's million lips are thirsting for
Must be substantial somewhere ...

W.B.Yeats

#21. His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. At other times he repeated my fsvorite poems or drew me out into arguments, wich he suported with great ingenuity.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#22. I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle to the grave, in males and females, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, high and low, as this passion for superiority.

David McCullough

#23. The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values - something whose like has never been seen on earth

Fredrich Nietzsche

#24. Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.

Theophan The Recluse

#25. In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.

Calvin Coolidge

#26. I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

George Sand

#27. If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

Jane Haddam

#28. The journey of life requires alot of enthusiasms, great passion and commitment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. Here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true

Marcel Wanders

#30. I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.

Sean Bean

#31. What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to be fulfilled by your own success?

Archibald Marwizi

#32. The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#33. I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

Charlie Sheen

#34. I have a sickness doctors can't cure,
Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,
Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,
Eager, like the drunk gulping wine mixed with poison,
Shameless were those my nights,
Yet my soul loved them beyond all passion.

Ibn Hazm

#35. I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that you get paid is just a bonus

Katheryn Winnick

#36. I can give you honesty, monogamy, and more passion than you can stand, but not love. That emotion died in me long ago, as I suspect you already know.

Jeaniene Frost

#37. It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

Penny Marshall

#38. Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

Mason Cooley

#39. Paranoid eyes with the fusion of passion and duplicity.

J.G. Ballard

#40. The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about.

Fiona Thrust

#41. Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other rewards - recognition, financial remuneration - come to so few and are so fleeting ... Take photography on as a passion, not a career.

Alex Webb

#42. He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.

Bill Vaughan

#43. I love the passions. They create such sensation! Anger, grief, fear, love, hate, excitement. The fierce emotions make one feel. Such are a gift, so one knows one is alive. To live without passion is to have no life at all.

Nikki Sex

#44. Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.

Andrew Michael Ramsay

#45. Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

Maurice Sendak

#46. You become a candidate for God's love when you are rejected by people

Sunday Adelaja

#47. No one is born with Positive Passion. This Power is ignited by Inspiration!-RVM

R.v.m.

#48. If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don't stand on the toes of dwarfs; stand on the shoulders of giants!

Israelmore Ayivor

#49. Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#50. I want to be with you, Demetria. Go on dates, have sex and pointless arguments, figure out why you like to eat rabbit food, be the person you call first when you've had a bad day, come over and hold your hair when you're sick. How much clearer can I make this?

Genevieve Dewey

#51. The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

Teresa Palmer

#52. To listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions.

Hermann Hesse

#53. People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.

Adam Hamilton

#54. I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.

Anna Freeman

#55. It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry.

Damon Horowitz

#56. Wouldn't you like to believe you're the center of someone's universe? To feel so special that the rest of the world didn't matter and it could all wait? What would you be willing to pay for that - any time you needed to feel that way?

D.A. Rhine

#57. The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.

Walter Savage Landor

#58. The antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.

David Hewson

#59. The American passion for categorizing has now managed to create two non-existent categories - gay and straight.

Gore Vidal

#60. I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.

Nicolaus Zinzendorf

#61. Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.

Samina Baig

#62. This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

Mark Akenside

#63. The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Lord Hailsham

#64. A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market ... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.

Elle Macpherson

#65. It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I found it in acting, it was simple. Use the tools you were given from playing football and apply it to your new passion. I have done that through acting, producing and writing.

Maurice Hall

#66. Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth ... Architecture aims at Eternity.

Christopher Wren

#67. Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them.

Jane Hirshfield

#68. The dark side is emotion, Bane. Anger, hate, love, lust. These are what make us strong, Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Your passion is still there, Bane. Seek it out. Reclaim it.

Drew Karpyshyn

#69. The thrill of seeing my words on a printed page has never faded. Now I've found my niche, my passion. I want to do this every day for the rest of my life.

Marion Smith Collins

#70. Most people only work enough so that it feels like work, whereas successful people work at a pace that gets such satisfying results that work is a reward. Truly successful people don't even call it work; for them, it's a passion. Why? Because they do enough to win!

Grant Cardone

#71. I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take me into minor surgeries when I was a kid and let me watch, so I definitely have a passion for it, but it's not as big a passion as I have for acting and creating characters.

Daniela Ruah

#72. I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

Anthony Minghella

#73. Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Agnes De Mille

#74. Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Bernard De Mandeville

#75. Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Virat Kohli

#76. If you are passionate, compassionate, commanding, and just, everybody will feel the passion and they will follow you passionately.

Debasish Mridha

#77. Tess and Clare unconsciously studied each other, ever balanced on the edge of a passion, yet apparently keeping out of it. All the while they were converging, under an irresistible law, as surely as two streams in one vale.

Thomas Hardy

#78. I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a
full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy
ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

Jim Harrison

#79. Art is a passion or it is nothing

Robert Fry

#80. A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.

Francois Mauriac

#81. A borderline suffers a kind of emotional hemophilia; [s]he lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate [her] spurts of feeling. Stimulate a passion, and the borderline emotionally bleeds to death.

Jerold Kreisman, Hal Straus

#82. What do you love to fulfill in life?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#83. The challenge for the entrepreneur is to find your passion and make fear history.

Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xcdeptional Execution

#84. If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.

Robert Rodriguez

#85. I'm sorry I made you cry, it's the last thing I would ever want to do....Unless it's out loud....during a moment of passion

Lesley Jones

#86. You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.

Robert Sternberg

#87. Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion.

Ralph Marston

#88. Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?

Oscar Wilde

#89. Words both written and read are my passion.

Leslie Austin

#90. Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

Henri Matisse

#91. Can we overcome our anger, instead of constantly being overcome by it? Yes - with God's help. Peter's anger was channeled into boldness for Christ. Paul's anger against Christians was replaced with a burning passion to spread the Gospel. Is this your goal?

Billy Graham

#92. First, I think of myself as a brand, a businesswoman. Musician is something I just do because it's my passion - I love it and it's something I do for fun. I love music and I love to make people dance.

Paris Hilton

#93. Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

Kevin Mitnick

#94. One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

Tim Ferriss

#95. I do believe 50 is the new 40 and 60 is the new 50. Hell, maybe 60 can be the new 40, I don't know. I believe that when we give ourselves permission, we can live with an excitement and heat and passion that most women in previous generations were unable to attain.

Marianne Williamson

#96. Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#97. Look for the exceptions to the rule
and let these rule your spirit.

Karen Salmansohn

#98. A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

Sophie Swetchine

#99. We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life

Deepak Chopra

#100. Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed.

Malak El Halabi