Passion Quotes

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.

I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.

I believe that there is a future in anything that one is vitally interested in.

My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.

If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic.

I know young people are all going to have different passions, but I would say that if you happen to have a heart for animals, never forget that without your voice, there is no channel for them.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

I didn't have the passion for athletics in that way, that there were other parts of me that felt under-served and that needed to be nurtured and needed my energy.

In my time at St. Mary's College, drifting out of sports because it was something that began to feel really finite. And I could see that I didn't have the passion to sustain a career in sports.

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.

In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.

My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.

Research is a passion with me; it drives me; it is my relentless master.

Never be ashamed of passion. If you are strongly sexed, you are richly endowed.

Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

Grief and passion make a volatile mix.

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

Know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative & successful. In fact, there's more than room for everyone; there is a need for everyone.

A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now.

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.

This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.

I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.

Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.

American Made is not just an event. It's a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are turning their passion for making into thriving small businesses.

Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.