Quotes and phrases about passion

My greatest passion is my personal life.

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.

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.

Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

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.

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.

Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.

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.

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.

When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.

If you lead with passion anything is possible!

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

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

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.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

If you have the desire and passion to do something, and it's within God's will, you will achieve it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.

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.

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.

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

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.

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.

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.

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.

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.

Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.

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.

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

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.

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

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.

The most beautiful makeup is passion, but cosmetics are easier to buy.

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

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.

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.

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.

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.'

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.

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

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.

I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

Passions change, politics are immutable.

Let passion drive your profession.

But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both.

Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you possibly end up having black holes. The danger is too much passion.

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.

You have to have some level of attachment, you can still have passion and believe but it has to be softened somewhat.

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want.

Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake, that these passions are more capable of mixture than any other kinds of affection; and it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.

Passion is passion. It's a sort of madness and possession of what you do or what you think. This is the difference of life: passion and commerce, which most of the people know as "P.C." But people have just got "C" now instead of "P."

I love what I do. I have an insatiable appetite for creating things and wanting to get better at what I do and always growing and never stopping. I don't know. It's something I was born with. It's definitely a drive. It's a passion, and it's driven for a love for what I do.

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.