Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honoré de Balzac
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
Mignon McLaughlin
If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.
T. Alan Armstrong
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Cicero
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
Julie de Lespinasse
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
Mignon McLaughlin
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
William Hazlitt
Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out you still care for that person.
If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.It’s very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you’re going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.
George Lucas
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Anthony Robbins
I’m realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I’m crazy.
Roman Abramovich
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.
Roger L’Estrange
Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.
John Wesley
The worst sin – perhaps the only sin – passion can commit, is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Someone once told me: ‘Luck is when opportunity meets preparation’. And that’s what I really feel with my music. I’ve worked really, really hard on it. It was like, ‘this is really what I want to do.. what do I have to do to make it work?’
Erica Baxter
One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they’re not in
touch with their passion. If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.
Jack Canfield
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice T
Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.
Lord Byron
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one’s own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
Chin-Ning Chu
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Stanley Kunitz
Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.
Glade Byron Addams
You have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise you sound false. You end up telling the audience jokes they’ve already heard.
Stephen Colbert
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered
aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis
Passion spins around love and I am dizzy always around you.
Albany Bach Reid
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it
This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life’s passion.
Clive Davis
Follow your passion, and success will follow you.
Arthur Buddhold
News.. communicating news and ideas, I guess.. is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read and alternative television channels.
Rupert Murdoch
Were the passionate visible, all we would go blind.
Jareb Teague
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
Leonardo da Vinci
I didn’t want to repeat my parents’ life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn’t want to live without passion.
Hugh Hefner
I have developer’s disease. I love to sit at a drafting table and draw plans for hotels, wrestling with problems of traffic and the flow of people. That’s what turns me on.
Steve Wynn
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Harold Whitman
Renew your passions daily.
Abbe Yeux-verdi
Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it’s something you’re tremendously passionate about.
Steve Pavlina
I truly love the game; I wouldn’t be playing if I didn’t love the game. I’m not getting paid astronomical dollars; it’s truly for the love of the game of basketball.
Michael Jordan
Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.
The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
Yves Saint Laurent
My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him.
Destiny Vaestus
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin
The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Amiel
I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk.
Oprah Winfrey
But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honoré de Balzac
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Nietzsche
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana
I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
Nina Berberova
I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Seneca
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only
people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It
happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
Saul Bellow
You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.
Garrison Keillor
The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
Li Ka Shing
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
Aldous Huxley