Passion Quotes

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn't start shopping until about 16 or 17, when I could drive myself to stores and explore on my own.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Unlike many graduate fellowships, the Rhodes seeks leaders who will 'fight the world's fight.' They must be more than mere bookworms. We are looking for students who wonder, students who are reading widely, students of passion who are driven to make a difference in the lives of those around them and in the broader world.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

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

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

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.

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.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

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

Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion.

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

The greatest gift is the 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.

Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.