Quotes on Passion

Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other, and the former will be objects to which the latter attach themselves.

Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.

Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy!

When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.

If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home.

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately love liberty, legality, the respect for rights, but not democracy....liberty is my foremost passion. That is the truth.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion