Passion Quotes

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.

The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.