The Passion Quotes
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.
When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.
When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely, without any doubt.
What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.
Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.
You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.
To think big is to love the universe, to embrace our passion. To love is to fight for what we love. What a waste not to, when we have only this one life to live.
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.
A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
Stay with me. I’ll show you things that’ll make you laugh in delight, scream in passion, cry for the sheer joy of it.
Forget if you are rich or poor. All you need is faith in yourself. If you have the passion to work then just get up and set forth and you will find the way!
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
Those who are passionate about what they do have an advantage that is nearly impossible to overcome. In passion there is energy, creativity, resilience and persistence. Passion will get it done.
The proper artistic response to digital technology is to embrace it as a new window on everything thats eternally human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy
Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.
A lot of times I had some problems, but I always had the passion and the personal motivation to keep going, to keep working hard, keep fighting for the things that really motivates me. That's all.
Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.
Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.
In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions.
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people's minds.
Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want To Be.
In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.
As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?