Passion Quotes

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

Passion is more developed than discovered.

If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

Acting has always been a passion of mine, so any opportunity that allows me to do that is definitely of interest to me.

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately, they keep running for office.

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

I want my kids to experience passion. I want them to see that I have things I feel passionate about because it is such a great feeling to really love something.

All my different kinds of artwork have been designed to inspire people to think. They may not always agree with me, but at least they will have some feelings and some passion about whatever it is.

For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.

I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

I've always had an itch for acting and a passion for acting, but never really got to dabble into it too much, and now I can say I'm officially an acrtress.

As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.

Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

I have a particular passion and focus on Alzheimer's and diseases of dementia. There's just so much scientifically that we don't know, and we can know.

Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.

I have tried to hold my philanthropic passion to fashion, because I think this is very important, and I realize I need to delve even deeper into it.

Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

Listen, my words have never been described as the most eloquent, but I stick by the passion behind them. I do hate Donald Trump.

Never go for the money. You have to match the job and your values so you can bring your whole self.

Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other.

Passion cooks. Reason cleans.

There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.

Channel your passion into lasting results

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?

You have to have the passion. I could not live if I wasn't an actor. If you're just in it for beautiful dresses and movie stars, then I think you should not be an actor.