Quotes on Passion

Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

Vision without passion is a picture without possibilities.

I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big - and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.

The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golf

Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published.

Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things.

Followers are always watching what you do. And people do what people see! If you are a leader seeking to make your vision come alive, then there is no better way to accomplish this than by living it: Modeling your expectations, setting the example by your actions, and showing the way through leading. Your followers, who are watching, will see in you the living picture of the vision, and you will produce the energy, motivation and passion to keep it going.

Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!