The Passion Quotes

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.

I'm thankful that I proved myself in music which is my first love, my first passion before I got involved in this media. I am hoping to bring it back to the music now.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

Passion is the genius of genius.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion

Talent is the discipline, commitment, and willpower to practice/train/study often, long, and hard. Discover your passion and pay the price.

Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful.

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.

I really value passion for the product above experience.

A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.

Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!

Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

When the passion isn't there, the drive isn't there and it just doesn't last for me.

This purity is attained through conquering the passions.

I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be driven and be nice.

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

When it comes to soul, Dennis Marcellino redefines the term. His remarkable tone and feel are full of passion and soulful expression.

Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter the chaste and pure region of the heart.

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

I've always had a passion for rap, and I might not be the greatest rapper, but I'm better than half of them out there.

And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

People will pay me to feel the passion and energy I breathe into my career and creations.

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.

We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

Passion without focus can lead you astray.

When I live out of discipline, I'm admired - When I live out of passion, I'm contagious.

Leaders who lack passion cost everyone who follows.

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.