The Passion Quotes

The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

If you don't have passion, you have no energy, and if you don't have energy, you have nothing.

Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

Wrestling - It isn't just a passion, it's my future.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.

I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.

Most people know what to do, but they don't do what they know - because they haven't found their inner drive. Their passion.

I live below my means because it makes what I do seem less like a job and more like a passion.

When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

I’ve always said I didn’t have a Plan B in life. I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It’s all about desire and passion. At all costs.

The secret to finding our passion is that we bring passion in everything that we do.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen.

Passion makes every detail important.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.

I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.

A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.

Nature formed me fierce.

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

Each of us must do whatever we have a passion to do.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good.

Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

Passion is very important; if you don't love what you do then you're probably doing the wrong job.

There is always a risk to follow your bliss, a price to pursue your passion.

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

Nothing is as important as passion.

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.