Quotes and phrases about passion

Welcome to our Passion collection, a celebration of the fiery intensity that fuels dreams, drives purpose, and propels us towards the extraordinary. In this curated compilation of quotes, we delve into the world of passion, honoring its power, the dedication it inspires, and the emotions it kindles within us.

Passion is more than a fleeting emotion; it's the force that ignites creativity, shapes destinies, and lends depth to our pursuits. Our Passion quotes honor the relentless pursuit of excellence, the beauty of wholehearted dedication, and the way passion infuses life with a vibrant and purposeful energy.

Whether you're an artist pouring your soul into your craft, captivated by the stories of driven individuals, or simply drawn to the magnetic energy of fervent pursuits, these quotes offer insights into the boundless potential and the transformative impact of passion.

Embark on a journey that celebrates the dreams that take root in passion, the stories of individuals who've overcome obstacles to follow their callings, and the way passion bridges the gap between work and fulfillment. Discover the narratives of those who've turned their passions into legacies, the lessons drawn from the highs and lows of passionate pursuits, and the inspiration to pursue your own passions with unwavering determination.

Jay Rockefeller
Jay Rockefeller
United States Senator
The reason I love being a senator is that I can have whatever thoughts I have, say whatever I want about any subject at any time, and that is a wonderful feeling of freedom, and I cherish that.
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
Novelist
Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot.
Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.
Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara
Actress
I'm obsessed with food!
Erika Christensen
Erika Christensen
Film actress
At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
Diana Krall
Diana Krall
Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist & Pianist
I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.
Paul Halmos
Paul Halmos
Influential Mathematician & Educator
I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.
Russell Hoban
Russell Hoban
Versatile Author & Creative Storyteller
I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.
Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel Heroes
When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.
Mary Ellen Chase
Mary Ellen Chase
New England's Literary Voice
The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.
Harvey Mackay
Harvey Mackay
Business Guru & Motivational Speaker
You can't be passionate when you feel like it. You have to be passionate about your job, product or cause all the time. There's no off switch on a tiger.
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Iconic James Bond Actor
I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
Len Wiseman
Len Wiseman
Talented Filmmaker of "Underworld"
It was Die Hard in my father's workshop. And so when that opportunity came up, the possibility of doing it, it's more the teenager in me who says that, 'I have to, of course I'm going to.' So that's the fun of reinventing, or just getting involved in things that really, actually loved as a kid growing up wanting to grow up to be a director.
M. F. K. Fisher
M. F. K. Fisher
Pioneering Food Writer
I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.
Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin
Musician
She'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain.
Aisha Tyler
Aisha Tyler
American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
I really do know football.
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television host
I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.
Blake Lively
Blake Lively
American actress, model, director, and advocate
My greatest passion is my personal life.
Witney Carson
Witney Carson
American professional Latin ballroom dancer and choreographer
A lot of things inspire me, but I would have to say the main thing that drives me is music.
Ciara
Ciara
American singer
Everyone loves to dance. I've realized that's a part of what I do more and more every day.
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire
American country music singer, actress and businesswoman
Get as much out of life as you possibly can with all the passion that goes with it. Then give it back with all the love and respect it deserves.
Ranbir Kapoor
Ranbir Kapoor
Indian actor known for his work in Hindi-language films
I’m not producing movies to make money
Chris Algieri
Chris Algieri
American professional boxer and former kickboxer
It's great to see part of my culture doing so well in the sport that I'm involved in, a sport that I have a passion for. I grew up hearing about a lot of Argentine fighters, the great Carlos Monzon and even the fighters on ESPN lime Omar Vaez; and now guys like Marcos Maidana and Sergio Martinez.
Niecy Nash
Niecy Nash
American actress, comedian and television host
I say God is kind. So many people want to do what I do [comedy] for a living, and so he didn't have to choose me. So I don't take all the credit, but I do know that I love what I do, and I see it as a gift.
Eli Roth
Eli Roth
American film director, producer, and actor
You can't help but be influenced by the things you love. Read more at: https://tr.im/ezGbq
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist
Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.
Alexandra Roach
Alexandra Roach
Welsh actress
That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I've had such a passion for TV and films. I can't do anything else.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist
Hate and love are reciprocal passions.
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson
English playwright and poet
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
Suzy Kassem
Suzy Kassem
Writer, director, philosopher, poet, and citizen of the world
Fiercely guard the passions burning inside your heart, so that their flames can safely reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.
Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet
English actress
I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
Robert G. Allen
Robert G. Allen
Businessman
Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
French military and political leader
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.
Beyonce
Beyonce
American singer, songwriter, and actress
My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist
When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.
Paula Abdul
Paula Abdul
American singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personality
If you lead with passion anything is possible!
Antisthenes
Antisthenes
Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews
English actress, singer, and author
I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across. I don't know where it comes from, that reserve or veneer of British niceness. But it doesn't bother me if other people don't spot the passion. I know it's there.
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
American actress of film, stage and television
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Nick Vujicic
Nick Vujicic
Australian American Christian evangelist and motivational speaker
If you have the desire and passion to do something, and it's within God's will, you will achieve it.
Manolo Blahnik
Manolo Blahnik
Spanish fashion designer and founder of the eponymous high-end shoe brand
The only people that come to my mind in the last years are Lee McQueen and John Galliano. Truly, truly . . . How do I say? Full of ideas. Full of the smell. They just had this incredible passion for what they did.
Gabrielle Bernstein
Gabrielle Bernstein
New York Times Bestselling author, motivational speaker, spiritual leader, and podcast host
Neglecting passion blocks creative flow. When you're passionate, you're energized. Likewise, when you lack passion, your energy is low and unproductive. Energy is everything when it comes to being successful.
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologist
He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions disarrange valuations. Inflamed with passion, man sees the goal as more desirable and the price he has to pay for it as less burdensome than he would in cool deliberation.
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
President of Argentina
I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it.
Judith Hill
Judith Hill
American singer-songwriter
Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez
American singer, actress, and dancer
I'm passionate, I'm driven at my job and I also am compassionate with people. We all think we can save somebody that we love.
Michael Gungor
Michael Gungor
American singer-songwriter, producer, music editor, author, and podcast host
I don't want everybody to try to sound like something; I think that God has given us each unique talents and passions. The things that come out of me will be different than my neighbor, because I have a totally different set of relationships, totally different set influences and personality traits.
Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts
English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician
But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
American novelist, short story writer
Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the circumstances that provoke it, however trivial or mean, are no measure of its power. In the present instance the stage is a scrubbed gun deck, and one of the external provocations a man-of-war's-man's spilled soup.
E. L. James
E. L. James
British author
Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman
Canadian-American actor and filmmaker
If someone else made 'Up in the Air' or 'Thank You For Smoking' or 'Juno,' I would have wanted to rip their head off. I need that same sort of passion for every project I take on.
Brooke Burke
Brooke Burke
American television personality, fitness personality, author, actress, and businesswoman
Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
Geoff Mulgan
Geoff Mulgan
Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London
Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.
David Cross
David Cross
American stand-up comedian, actor, director and writer
I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.
John Adams
John Adams
American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronaut
Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
Italian writer and journalist
So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity.
Ellen Douglas
Ellen Douglas
American author
But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?
Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault
Iconic French author and member of the Académie Française
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.
Demi Lovato
Demi Lovato
American singer, songwriter, and actor
I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.
Daniel H. Pink
Daniel H. Pink
American author
You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent
French fashion designer
The most beautiful makeup is passion, but cosmetics are easier to buy.
Cathy Freeman
Cathy Freeman
Australian former sprinter, who specialized in the 400 metres event
I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.
Gisele Bundchen
Gisele Bundchen
Brazilian model, activist, and businesswoman
My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
Carmen Dell'Orefice
American supermodel and actress
London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, offers the range of subjects that help young designers to arrange the underpinnings that are necessary to get from zero to 10. The hardest part is the beginning, understanding your passion and making the decision that whatever it takes, that's what you're going to do. London College of Fashion shows them what they must do and helps them to find their goal.
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan period
Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
Andy Cohen
Andy Cohen
American Producer
Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Aerin Lauder
Aerin Lauder
American Businesswoman
Estee Lauder was my grandmother. She was an iconic and powerful woman, but to us, she was just Estee. She was the first person to teach me how important it is to be passionate and proud of what you do, and always talked about 'balance.'
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
British Actress
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French Philosopher
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football player
WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
Novelist
Stuart stands and says, 'Come here,' and he's on my side of the room in one stride and he claps my hands to his hips and kisses my mouth like I am the drink he's been dying for all day and I've heard girls say it's like melting, that feeling. But I think it's like rising, growing even taller and seeing sights over a hedge, colors you've never seen before.
When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.