Passion Quotes

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

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.

Logic is no answer to passion.

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say that I wouldn't put my kids in it, if I saw that they really, really wanted to do and they had the drive, then I would fully support it. As long as there's balance at home, then they could do whatever they wanted to do.

I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

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.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

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.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference.

Food is a passion. Food is love.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.

The strongest passion is fear.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.

My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

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

I'm surprised at people who have a passion for Mitt Romney, because he's taken every position there is. I would cast this guy as the president in a heartbeat... but I just cannot believe a word he says.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

Passion has been in my DNA for generations.

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

I have a passion to do theater.

I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did.

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

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.