Passion Quotes

I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

~ Enzo Ferrari

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

~ Barbra Streisand

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

~ Louise Brown

The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.

~ Sidney Crosby

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It's also the dangerous part and it's an ugly emotion that hurts.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

~ Narendra Modi

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

~ Czeslaw Milosz

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

~ Juliette Binoche

It's amazing to be able to play the sport that I grew up loving so much and that I have a strong passion for. I'm just having a ball. There's a lot of pressure that comes with being in the spotlight and being a superstar and a role model, but I'm enjoying it.

~ Reggie Bush

I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport.

~ Sania Mirza

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

~ Oprah Winfrey

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

~ Fawn M. Brodie

My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into.

~ Max Von Essen

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'

~ Drew Barrymore

Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.

~ Laurie Metcalf

It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

~ Stephen Curry

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

~ Teena Marie

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

~ Elizabeth Hardwick

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

~ John Ruskin

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

~ Michel De Montaigne

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

~ Edmund Burke

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

~ Martha Beck

I define leadership as: Emotionally, you own your business. You own it with passion. And you either have or you don't have an economic investment. But when you have all three of those, you are the boss from Day One, and you care every single day more than anyone.

~ Mickey Drexler

Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.

~ Bill Nye

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

~ Maajid Nawaz

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

~ Peter Shaffer

The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.

~ Che Guevara

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

~ Albert Camus

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

~ Abraham Maslow

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

~ Albert Camus

My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.

~ Laura Mvula

For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

~ Jeff Greenfield

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

~ Yo-Yo Ma

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

~ Martha Graham

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.

~ Valentino Rossi

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don't have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you - unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike.

~ Justin Rosenstein