Passion Quotes

For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits.

Longus

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

George Eliot

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

Simon Sinek

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

Ken Robinson

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Elon Musk

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Albert Camus

Jack and Jill slept, wrapped in each other's arms, untroubled by any dream in their cocoon of freshly discovered wrinkly passion.

Helen Hodgman

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Marquis de Sade

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Mary Lou Retton

The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way

Plato

Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

Georges Bataille

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

John Irving

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Claude A. Helvetius

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Claude A. Helvetius

Passion is the trigger of success.

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