The Passion Quotes

If you are not doing what your passion is, you are putting it on layaway.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.

Passion is the energy that love creates with no object other than itself.

Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes.

Spirit is passionate; without passion no one can be truly spiritual.

You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

Passion and love for a brand and its consumers sustain us. For how can we ever devote our continued highest energy to something if we don't believe in it passionately.

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

Passion produces the best discipline.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

I love babies. I could take care of them for all the days of my life and I'd be happy. It is for sure passion No. 1.

I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.

Passion and strife bow down the mind

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!