Passion Quotes

Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

The fans have what they want. They want entertainment, they want passion and they want commitment.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

It's the youth movement we have. A lot of young guys with a lot of passion. It brings the fun back to the game.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and out of a sense that Washington is in need of dire fiscal reform.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

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

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.