Quotes On Passion For Something

#1. You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?

James M. Kouzes

#2. All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.

Yanni

#3. Why would God give us a passion for something unless we could somehow use it for his glory?

Diane Moody

#4. My biggest turn-off is if a woman doesn't have a real passion for something ... and bad breath!

Romeo Miller

#5. I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

James Caan

#6. When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

Vera Wang

#7. Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.

Zachary Levi

#8. What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.

Clara Hughes

#9. My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

Faye Dunaway

#10. There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive.

Rhona Mitra

#11. I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit.

Alan King

#12. Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

Francis Collins

#13. When you have passion for something you find a way to make it happen - this is the panacea to success.

Zig Ziglar

#14. Practice is a shared history of learning. Practice is conversational. 'Communities of Practice' are groups of people who share a concern (domain) or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better (practice) as they interact regularly (community).

Etienne Wenger

#15. You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation.

Patton Oswalt

#16. Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live.

Megan Duke

#17. I'm not against speaking publicly and having passion for something. One of the cardinal beauties of America is that we have the freedom to do so.

Raul Ruiz

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

Hugh Prather

#22. Cultivate an appreciation and passion for books. I'm using passion in the fullest sense of the word: a deep, fervent emotion, a state of intense desire; an enthusiastic ardor for something or someone.

Cassandra King

#23. I don't know what I'd do with my life if it wasn't for animation.' I guess I would be an artist, or do something with animals. I have a passion for animals. Maybe I would've become a veternarian.

Andreas Deja

#24. Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier ... It just makes you less likely to quit.

Kate Jacobs

#25. I'm grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.

Anthony Hemingway

#26. I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work- or something outside of work.

Sarah Lafleur

#27. Baine was controlling her passion, curbing it from a destructive wild-natured thing, to something beautiful and wonderful. For the countless time since his arrival, Ivy found herself not caring about anything else. All she wanted was for the mouth dance to continue. Forever.

Shirley Bourget

#28. Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion.

Andrew Tan

#29. Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.

Simon Sinek

#30. You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golf

Jack Nicklaus

#31. Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.

Seth Godin

#32. 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

#33. I could never go back to something like that. Not after having passion for someone, after seeing what it's like to want and feel something in your bones,

Shelly Crane

#34. To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God's passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#35. Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings.

Garth Brooks

#36. I miss having a villain. Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely the better.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#37. All my love, my pain, my passion were to be sacrificed for something greater, and yet i could not convince myself that i had mad the right choice.

Kailin Gow

#38. I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I'd like to get inside their reptilian heads.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#39. Nobody wants great things for you. They all want you to be something they deem important for them.

Abhijit Naskar

#40. We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#41. Clasping her to him, he hugged her for a long while and she felt his guilt and fear subside. "Do you want to see something very special - something magical?"
Giggling she whispered, "You already showed me that this morning."
He swatted her bottom. "Minx! Not that!

Charlotte Featherstone

#42. The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.

Israelmore Ayivor

#43. I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.

Sarah Lacy

#44. She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn't something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.

Roman Payne

#45. Rosa had achieved the sort of serene and confident happiness that Tamsin had never really known. She was connected to Roberto in a way that made Tamsin long for something similar. A man with whom she could share all parts of her life, someone to be her equal and her inspiration.

Emily Arden

#46. I started doing wrestling just as a fun thing and I ended up getting some breaks and made a job out of it but I never had a real passion for it. I met a lot of great people and enjoyed doing what I did but wrestling wasn't something I lived and breathed.

Ric Savage

#47. As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

Charlie Haden

#48. Motivation is the key to success in whatever you're doing in life. It comes a lot easier when you're doing something you love and have passion for. My goal is to have a good time and a hot run. And I'm not afraid of disappointment
it only makes me work harder.

Missy Giove

#49. Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

Jackie Collins

#50. Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

Cameron Crowe

#51. I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.

Kerri Strug

#52. You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it, you enjoy songwriting, and eventually if you're writing enough songs, then you fall into it.

Vance Joy

#53. It took a long time for me to accept that I was never going to find that something I'm really good at. I spent a lot of time wandering in college for that reason. When I finally did find my passion, it was for other people's writing, not my own.

Maggi Myers

#54. If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

Steve Case

#55. The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.

David O. Russell

#56. But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Andy Hertzfeld

#57. Just keep being true to yourself, if you're passionate about something go for it. Don't sacrifice anything, just have fun.

Blake Lewis

#58. For most people, passion comes after they try something, discover they like it, and develop mastery - not before. To put it more succinctly: passion is the result of a good life design, not the cause.

William Burnett

#59. All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

Pat Riley

#60. You're not a secretary; you're a poet. What makes you think your life is going to be uncomplicated? What makes you think you can avoid all conflict? What makes you think you can avoid pain? Or passion? There's something to be said for passion. Can't you ever allow yourself and forgive yourself?

Erica Jong

#61. There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens

#62. Your qualification for finding a place to belong is enthusiasm and passion, and I think that's a beautiful thing. No one should feel lonely or embarrassed about liking something.

Felicia Day

#63. To work a vineyard, you need a lot of guts to do that. To go out there and work all year, you almost feel that these people talk to the grapes. Wine is a lifestyle, and you can talk about it for ages. It's a passion, but it's not something I can do on a daily basis.

Thomas Muster

#64. Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your career. You might have to look for more than one passion. Some passions may afford a career and some may not.

Larry Smith

#65. When you do something you love, you have a passion for it. It comes naturally. Staying true to yourself and doing what you love keeps you going ... everything else falls into place.

Christian Louboutin

#66. The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

Kevin Kelly

#67. There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have mastered the art of being truly uncomfortable while facing up to culture.

Sheridan Morley

#68. The weight changes and balance that I have become accustomed to in riding have helped me to feel what the car is doing. It has become instinctive to me and I think that has something to do with why I am doing so well in my passion for racing.

Liz Halliday

#69. Passion is the spark for everything. By itself, passion is never enough. Just like talent is never enough. But it's your fire starter.
Without passion, you won't do something 100 percent. That's the bottom line.
And what's the point of doing something if you're not doing it 100 percent?

Apolo Ohno

#70. The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.

Derek Jeter

#71. Get yourself into something that you don't have passion for and feel like an idiot always.

Ameya Agrawal

#72. I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!

Martina Mcbride

#73. You're never too young for something you really want to do, never too young to go after your passion. The age doesn't matter at all. If it's something you want to do, it depends on your will.

Thia Megia

#74. If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.

George Lucas

#75. Commit yourself to something you have a passion for.

Bill Walsh

#76. I have a real passion for playing a role that's a strong female character, that's just not typical, with a lot of heart, not an easy sell of a movie, not real commercial. It doesn't have to be a big movie, but I'm just looking for something that I really, truly, 100 percent believe in and am behind.

Missy Peregrym

#77. Passion makes others feel like they are working not for someone but, rather, with others - and working for something bigger than the individuals involved.

Rob Roy

#78. What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#79. My daddy. . . . . used to say, 'Honey, find something you love to do and then figure out a way to get paid for it.' He understood that where your true passion is, there your joy is also. And a joyful life is a truly successful life. Perhaps not by the world's standards, but whose life is it anyway?

Kathie Lee Gifford

#80. Passion and love for a brand and its consumers sustain us. For how can we ever devote our continued highest energy to something if we don't believe in it passionately.

John E. Pepper Jr.

#81. Don't get roped into talking about something that you don't really have passion for, and don't get roped into something you don't have expertise in. Why should somebody listen to you? If you're going to take somebody's time, you better deliver.

Tony Robbins

#82. Do not chase another human being. Instead, chase your curiosity. Chase your development and your goals. Chase your passion. Strive to work for something bigger than yourself, and instead of trying to convince someone that you fit within their world, strive to build your own.

Bianca Sparacino

#83. The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography ... The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.

David Hurn

#84. The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

Dominic Monaghan

#85. A passion for learning ... isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.

Deborah Meier

#86. Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion.

John Piper

#87. That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for.

Elena Delle Donne

#88. Her brain has more muscles than her body, and less sense. Her passion for life pushes her limbs further than they were meant to go. She's going to burn herself to ash if she doesn't find someone or something that takes her all the way down to ground zero and recharges her.

Karen Marie Moning

#89. Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

Twyla Tharp

#90. People look for their passions. But often, the passions find you. How does your # passion find you? When you are good at something, you get passionate about it. That's it.

James Altucher

#91. So I can understand the mad passion for travel books and their deceptiveness. They create the illusion of something which no longer exists but still should exist, if we were to have any hope of avoiding the overwhelming conclusion that the history of the past twenty thousand years is irrevocable.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#92. To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.

Yoko Ono

#93. I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#94. I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.

Ashton Kutcher

#95. What do you always think about? What do you think you can do easily? What do you find peace in your heart to do? Watch those things carefully because among them is something on which you can turn the entire environment surrounding you for your success.

Israelmore Ayivor

#96. You kind of gotta step back from your dreams and your passions once in a while, and kind of do something else for a minute so that you can come back to it with a fresh outlook, and be real inspired by something else, so you can give something back to your dreams and your passions.

Tristan Prettyman

#97. Conceive a canvas for a lyrical or fairytale buffoonery, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown everything in an abnormal and dreamy atmosphere, - in the atmosphere of the great days. - It must be something soothing, - even serene in its passion. - Regions of pure Poetry.

Charles Baudelaire

#98. I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

J.J. Abrams

#99. Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment ... Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new ...

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#100. You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.

Truman Capote