Passion Quotes

When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.

I was raised to pursue my passions and pursue the things that I love, and to just live life to the fullest.

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you.

Life is given us as a passion.

Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

If you have the passion to do something, work hard, stay honest and nothing can stop you to accomplish it.

In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

I have a huge passion for literature.

Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.

Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick is to look for friendship rather than passion.

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

“It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

Make passionate my sense of hearing.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

Passion makes the will lord of the reason.

Some managers are uncomfotable with expressing emotion about their dreams, but it's the passion and emotion that will attract and motivate others.

The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?

My second passion besides fighting is traveling. So, for me to be able to go somewhere like the places I've been is just awesome.

I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.

Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are.

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.

When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.

To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.

Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?

Top Model' is pretty good, because it gives these girls an opportunity to chase their passion and possibly get a contract.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.

You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.

People want to be connected to be everyone at anytime. They want to talk about their passions, they want to talk about their private life, they want to have the right to speak.

Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?

When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.