Passion Quotes

The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

Teresa of Avila

Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.

Steve Irwin

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

Voltaire

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

William Shakespeare

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Noblest form of Affection

Oscar Wilde

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

John Wooden

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Johann von Goethe

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Ezra Pound

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from non-successful ones is perseverance.

Steve Jobs, Jobs quote from 1995

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honore de Balzac

Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

George Meredith