The Passion Quotes

All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead.

Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

Passion - and humor will permit all of us to do some marvelous things.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

You have to have passion for everything you do, and you've got to look at the positive side.

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

It takes a tremendous amount of passion to do innovative things every day.

A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less.

I have a really strong passion for what I do. I don’t see myself doing anything else.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.

Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.

Passion gives me emotional strength... Passion means power!

The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.

We will never have more affection or passion for God than we understand He has for us. We will never be more committed to God than our understanding of His commitment to us.

To be a fighter, you have to be passionate. I have so much passion, it's hard to hold it all in. That passion escapes as tears from my eyes, sweat from my pores, blood from my veins.

The secret of passion is purpose.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.

We're all capable if we have faith and passion.

When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.

That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it.

I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

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.

Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.