Passion Quotes

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

~ Robert Wise

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'

~ Nobu Matsuhisa

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

~ James Russell Lowell

Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.

~ Kajol

Patience is passion tamed.

~ Lyman Abbott

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

~ Rollo May

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

~ D. H. Lawrence

The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.

~ Sarah Maclean

How the original 'Cosmos' affected me personally was long-term. I wasn't born early enough to see the original series, but after getting a hold of it in my teen years, it was one of the driving forces behind my passion for science.

~ Kyle Hill

Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.

~ Kim Fields

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

~ Gertrude Stein

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

~ James Joyce

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

~ Victoria Abril

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!

~ Rachele Brooke Smith

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

~ Denis Diderot

Food is a huge passion of mine, and because I want to eat whatever I want, I run every morning, and then I do weights a few times a week. It's just how I can balance eating pancakes in the morning, a big burger for lunch, and then a fat steak and cheesecake at night.

~ Matt Barr

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

~ David Bowie

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

~ Honoré De Balzac

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

~ David Bowie

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

~ Lebron James

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

~ Eddie Vedder

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

~ Mario Andretti

Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.

~ Alex Lowe

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

~ Richard Rogers

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

~ Marsha Blackburn

I don't have a formula to pass on. I always did it my own way. Even today, I hold my independence close. It's what's most precious to me. Passion. Risk. Tenacity. Consistency. This is my professional history.

~ Giorgio Armani

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

~ Ted Ligety

To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.

~ Joe Mansueto

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

~ Anthony J. D'angelo

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

~ Saint Ignatius

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

~ Debi Mazar

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

~ Lord Hailsham

The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.

~ Francois Pinault

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

~ John Ruskin

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

~ Honoré De Balzac