The Passion Quotes

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Everything I've done I've done with enthusiasm and passion.

As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.

The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

You must find the passion, an unrelenting passion.

You have to have some level of attachment, you can still have passion and believe but it has to be softened somewhat.

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.

I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.

Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find

We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow aware of His presence in us.

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

Feeling alone guides the mind.

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.

I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?

Without passion, there is no genius.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

I feel that when you have a passion and you are real, you last throughout the ages and you're able to reincarnate your artistry numerous times.

Live an inspiring life. I don't do anything if I don't have a passion for it. I can't wait to get up in the morning and start the day. I just have such a passion for life and everything I do.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

Passion is born of vague hopes.

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.