The Passion Quotes

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.

The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.

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.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.

Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

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

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way.

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

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.

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.

You have to have passion for what you're doing.

The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

What happens when you believe something with all your heart? Belief fuels enthusiasm, and determined enthusiasm explodes into passion. It fires our souls and lifts our spirits.

Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion that it should be.

You have to do things that excite you; you have to have a passion for your work. Otherwise you're just a face on the screen.

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

A huge part of my passion for the sport comes from being Canadian and growing up watching Hockey Night in Canada on CBC with my parents and siblings.

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.

My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.

You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

Passion is overcome only by him who has won through stillness of spirit the perfect vision; it comes through the contentment that is regardless of the world.

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.

You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

If you don't have passion, change.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

I dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

I love fashion, and I love clothes, and so collaborating and putting pieces together is a passion that I have.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.