Passion Quotes

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

JeanPaul Sartre

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

Orson Welles

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Christian Nevell Bovee

I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

George Brett

Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

Lyn St. James

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.

Mark Twain

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Thomas Adams

People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon.

Paulo Coelho

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Anthony Robbins

Live with passion!

Anthony Robbins

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Mary Decker Slaney

Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.

George Eliot

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Alexander Herzen

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Albert Camus

It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms. Autumns reward western Kansas for the evils at the remaining seasons impose: winter's rough Colorado winds and hip-high, sheep slaughtering snows; the slushes and the strange land fogs of spring; and summer, when even crows seek the puny shade, and the tawny infinitude of wheatstalks bristle, blaze.

Truman Capote