The Passion Quotes

#1. Some managers are uncomfotable with expressing emotion about their dreams, but it's the passion and emotion that will attract and motivate others.

James C. Collins

#2. I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion.

Tony Hsieh

#3. There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

#4. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Robin S. Sharma

#5. You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.

Emma Goldman

#6. There is only one passion that can help us control the many other passions that plague us; that is the passion to know and obey God. When we get out of touch with Christ, we begin touching the things of the world, trying to fill the void that human flesh craves.

Billy Graham

#7. And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn ...

D.H. Lawrence

#8. The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

Francois Fenelon

#9. As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Joseph Conrad

#10. If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

Sam Walton

#11. Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

Matthew Arnold

#12. In a way, all Scandinavian movies are descendants of the original Scandinavian Christian-metaphor movie, Danish director Carl Dreyer's 1928 'The Passion of Joan of Arc,' one of the seven or eight best films ever made and impossible to watch more than once.

Steve Erickson

#13. The passion for destruction is also a creative passion

Mikhail Bakunin

#14. FedEx is another company that's passionate. When it absolutely, positively has to get there is such a great, aspirational phrase. And FedEx used it for almost a decade to communicate the passion of delivering a package. The more passionate you are, the more successful you are.

Frank Luntz

#15. The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to perform their motion, by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#16. You know I hate parties. With the passion of a televangelist on Sunday morning. I suck at small talk and mingling. Give me a booth in a bar and a few good friends, and I'm a happy girl. But parties suck.

Kristen Callihan

#17. There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

William Congreve

#18. I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.

Criss Jami

#19. The passion is my favorite part of the city [Philadelphia]. You go from 'we love you' to 'we hate you' back to 'you walk on water.' You're driving, and somebody might wave or somebody might flip you off.

Jim Thome

#20. One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.

Alix Kates Shulman

#21. The man who uses his hands is a laborer. The man who uses his mind is a master. But the man who gives his heart to the passion is a craftsman.

Anonymous

#22. I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#23. with the passion that she had pent

Zania Summers

#24. What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.

Arthur Symons

#25. Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God

Amy Carmichael

#26. I do think the internet has killed the mystery of the planet. It's removed the pain, the passion, and the struggle - I firmly believe they're all part of creativity.

Don Letts

#27. We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.

Joan Blades

#28. Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

Soren Kierkegaard

#29. There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.

Eric Kandel

#30. The passion of Jesus is lonely only as all our deaths are lonely. He is with us in the loneliness of death, too. And so, he and we are not alone even there. The same blow that strikes him dead, strikes us all dead, and it strikes us in the same way.

Craig Keen

#31. Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.

Mother Teresa

#32. When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.

Julia Ward Howe

#33. I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

Lasse Hallstrom

#34. The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.

Josephine Hart

#35. Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

Oscar Wilde

#36. Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

#37. If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion everyday.

Emmanuel Petit

#38. I like a movie that brings out many discussions. From my experience, every time I have done movies, they create this kind of situation. Like 'Irreversible,' 'The Passion of the Christ,' 'Malena'; it's so interesting. I like to explore the dark side of humanity. That's why I'm an actor.

Monica Bellucci

#39. It is the passion of God that empowers to impact lives

Sunday Adelaja

#40. Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

Max Walker

#41. Writing is so much more productive when it is set on fire, for then and only then can you feel the passion spewing forth from the writer's heart.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#42. World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Helen Keller

#43. Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as a small child. Occasionally I made another career; but now I have again the possibility of maintaining the passion of my early youth days.

Carmen Kass

#44. A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The outcome is the balance of might and right.

J-Ax

#45. Of course, while Katherine took the accolades in stride, she never took the work for granted. Not a morning dawned that she didn't wake up eager to get to the office. The passion that she had for her job was a gift, one that few people ever experienced.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#46. If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

John Maeda

#47. The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical.

Hillary Clinton

#48. Delightful are forests
Where the public does not delight.
There the passion-free delight,
Not seeking sensual pleasure.

Gautama Buddha

#49. Self-education begins with the passion to read the Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#50. But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.

Soren Kierkegaard

#51. When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.

Harlan Ellison

#52. Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.

Anne Rice

#53. The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

Eric Hoffer

#54. The passion of the church and every follower of Christ should be that all peoples have an opportunity to hear, understand, and respond to the gospel.

Ed Stetzer

#55. No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

Plato

#56. Fear is the passion of slaves.

Patrick Henry

#57. The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#58. I think that my first book - I was trying to write the kind of book I would have loved as a kid. So it's sort of, like, a book inspired by my childhood reading and the passion that I felt about reading when I was a kid.

Rebecca Stead

#59. What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it's only one!

Thomas Hardy

#60. To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

John Carpenter

#61. When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

Deena Kastor

#62. My Aunty Frisco used to say that a man who has a strong relationship with fire is capable of historical love, because the flames keep the passion flowing in the smaller parts of the soul.

Adam Rapp

#63. You have to have the passion. I could not live if I wasn't an actor. If you're just in it for beautiful dresses and movie stars, then I think you should not be an actor.

Diane Kruger

#64. Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#65. I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life - every aspect of it.

Grant Achatz

#66. The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.

Orrin Woodward

#67. The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

Lord Acton

#68. I love opera. Si. But I am old. No passion in my life, you know? I work, I walk slowly now through my years ... but opera! I see, I hear that passion, Eva. Is like the passion of youth. And I live again. I feel something.

J.J. Brown

#69. The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

Paul Tillich

#70. As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to really urge you do is to have a global vision. Go beyond your country; go beyond your national boundaries

Ban Ki-moon

#71. Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Harriet Tubman

#72. PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

Ambrose Bierce

#73. The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance and power over other men. For years, the Mafia was the stuff of novels and movies and whispers on Mulberry Street.

Robert D. McFadden

#74. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer

E. M. Forster

#75. Winning a trophy is always nice, but my personal satisfaction comes from reflecting on the passion, motivation, and determination that went into getting me there.

Tommy Hilfiger

#76. His love for his wife and son was not beautiful - no one would ever write a poem to the passion of a man who balled his socks before his wife - but it was sturdy and unswerving.

Stephen King

#77. A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#78. Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

Alexis Carrel

#79. I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one's innermost thoughts to life?

Chingiz Aitmatov

#80. One of my favorite things about soccer is how the art and the passion of the game somehow unites people and nations and classes and races. That's something that comes out of the game and how it's displayed and why people enjoy watching it and supporting it.

Tobin Heath

#81. I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.

David Beckham

#82. The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle ... Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

Christina Stead

#83. Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

Richard J. Foster

#84. The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

Elizabeth Bowen

#85. Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.

Martha Stewart

#86. Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man.

E. M. Forster

#87. Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time

Robin Wasserman

#88. Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.

Emil Cioran

#89. My first record - it was 1991. I was 16 years old. My first album came out when I was 20. So, I've been here that long and I still have the passion to do it.

Nas

#90. Tell yourself often: I am going to tackle my aspirations head on with the passion and dedication necessary to exceed even my expectations.

Lorii Myers

#91. I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

Allen Iverson

#92. Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.

Estela Portillo Trambley

#93. The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

Lord Acton

#94. I died a little inside. The beast hated seeing her so meek and broken while the man learned a new compassion for caring. But day by day, hour by hour, the passion and need I felt for her turned from lover to brother. From consumed to confused.

Pepper Winters

#95. Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.

David Heyman

#96. The passion of love separated its victim terribly from everyone but the loved object.

Henry James

#97. Divine had meant to try to shut her mind off from his sooner than she had, but had got wrapped up in the passion she'd so carefully stirred to life in them both and left it just that one second or two too long. Instead of remaining conscious as she'd hoped, she'd ended up passing out with him.

Lynsay Sands

#98. We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution.

Hannah Arendt

#99. The love to know is the passion for reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#100. God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

N. T. Wright