Passion Quotes

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

~ Henry James

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

~ Jack Kemp

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

~ Edward Gibbon

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

~ William Blake

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

~ Steve Jobs

When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.

~ Tim Tebow

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

~ Steve Irwin

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

~ Jonathan Sacks

My new passion is to get Internet education mandated in all schools. We've got to start teaching our kids how to be safe in the 40,000 plus chat rooms that are out there. Because they're being had. These sexual predators groom the kids. I know, I've arrested enough of them.

~ Erik Estrada

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

~ Sylvia Plath

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

~ Cyril Connolly

Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

~ Valentino Rossi

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

~ Ludacris

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

~ Andrea Bocelli

In this industry, you have to have passion. It's tough; there's no mercy. But I just love cars - I love to bring a new car to market. And every time I do this, it gets a little easier.

~ Henrik Fisker

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

~ Clare Balding

But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.

~ Mark-Paul Gosselaar

The key is to join an industry that you have a passion for. If you love cars, then automotive is where you should end up.

~ Gwynne Shotwell

My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.

~ Mimi Kennedy

My primary passion is film-making. That's the aspect of my life that defines me, completes me, and completely grounds me. Everything else - from judging a reality TV show to hosting a talk show - is just a result of me being a film-maker. I am the happiest, satisfied and at peace when I am behind the camera.

~ Karan Johar

My daughter is my passion and my life.

~ Tamara Mellon

I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.

~ Diana Lynn

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

~ Oscar Isaac

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.

~ Sebastian Coe

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

~ Henry Hazlitt

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

~ F. Sionil José

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

~ Chinua Achebe

If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.

~ Philippe Petit

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

~ J.k. Rowling

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

~ F. Sionil José

I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

~ Chinua Achebe

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

~ Danielle Steel

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

~ Mary Karr

Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

~ Alexander Hamilton

The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.

~ Li Ka-Shing

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

~ André Gide