Passion Quotes

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

~ Ben Nicholas

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

~ Stephen Leacock

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

~ Louis L'amour

Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

~ Anon

Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.

~ Moritz Saphir.

Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

~ J.m. Barrie

Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

~ Ella Wheeler

Give us men to match our mountains, Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

~ Miller H.t.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

~ Abigail Van Buren

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

~ Louis L'amour

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

~ Lakshmi Mittal

The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.

~ Denise Di Novi

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

~ Michael Douglas

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

~ William Sloane Coffin

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people's minds, you have to respect the people you're talking to.

~ Moby

The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.

~ Karisma Kapoor

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels.

~ Max Azria

I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me.

~ Colin Morgan

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.

~ Donovan Bailey

Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

~ Travis Bradberry

Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.

~ Marcus Buckingham

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.

~ Pierce Brosnan

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

~ Thomas Browne

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.

~ Ryszard Kapuściński

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

~ Eamon De Valera

I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.

~ John Battelle

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

~ Taylor Swift

Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

~ Kailash Kher

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

~ Ellen G. White

I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

~ Barry Williams

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

~ Nadia Boulanger

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

~ Dominic Monaghan

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

~ D. H. Lawrence

Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.

~ Kapil Dev

I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to describe it... I was an obsessed Brooklyn Dodgers fan. And I think when they left Brooklyn, which was simultaneous with me starting college, everything changed, and I haven't had the same passion for sports.

~ Brian Dennehy