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
— United States SenatorThe 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.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorIdeas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.
Erika Christensen
— Film actressAt 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
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsA 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
— Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist & PianistI work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.
Paul Halmos
— Influential Mathematician & EducatorI 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
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerI'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
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesWhen 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
— New England's Literary VoiceThe greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerYou 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
— Iconic James Bond ActorI genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
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
— Pioneering Food WriterI wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.
Ricky Martin
— MusicianShe'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostI really do know football.
Neil Patrick Harris
— American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television hostI 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
— American actress, model, director, and advocateMy greatest passion is my personal life.
Witney Carson
— American professional Latin ballroom dancer and choreographerA lot of things inspire me, but I would have to say the main thing that drives me is music.
Ciara
— American singerEveryone loves to dance. I've realized that's a part of what I do more and more every day.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanGet 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
— Indian actor known for his work in Hindi-language filmsI’m not producing movies to make money
Chris Algieri
— American professional boxer and former kickboxerIt'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
— American actress, comedian and television hostI 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
— American film director, producer, and actorYou can't help but be influenced by the things you love. Read more at: https://tr.im/ezGbq
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistJealousy 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
— Welsh actressThat'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
— Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalistHate and love are reciprocal passions.
Ben Jonson
— English playwright and poetPassions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
Suzy Kassem
— Writer, director, philosopher, poet, and citizen of the worldFiercely 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
— English actressI'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
— BusinessmanPursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderMusic, 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
— American singer, songwriter, and actressMy 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
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistWhen you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.
Paula Abdul
— American singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personalityIf you lead with passion anything is possible!
Antisthenes
— Greek philosopher and a pupil of SocratesAs iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Julie Andrews
— English actress, singer, and authorI 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
— American actress of film, stage and televisionMarriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Nick Vujicic
— Australian American Christian evangelist and motivational speakerIf you have the desire and passion to do something, and it's within God's will, you will achieve it.
Manolo Blahnik
— Spanish fashion designer and founder of the eponymous high-end shoe brandThe 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
— New York Times Bestselling author, motivational speaker, spiritual leader, and podcast hostNeglecting 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
— Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologistHe 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
— President of ArgentinaI 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
— American singer-songwriterFighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.
Jennifer Lopez
— American singer, actress, and dancerI'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
— American singer-songwriter, producer, music editor, author, and podcast hostI 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
— English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logicianBut, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.
Herman Melville
— American novelist, short story writerPassion, 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
— British authorWomen 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
— Canadian-American actor and filmmakerIf 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
— American television personality, fitness personality, author, actress, and businesswomanLatin 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
— Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College LondonDemocracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.
David Cross
— American stand-up comedian, actor, director and writerI am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.
John Adams
— American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding FatherWe 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
— American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronautDo something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.
Italo Calvino
— Italian writer and journalistSo 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
— American authorBut why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?
Charles Perrault
— Iconic French author and member of the Académie FrançaiseTo 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
— American singer, songwriter, and actorI'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
— American authorYou 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
— French fashion designerThe most beautiful makeup is passion, but cosmetics are easier to buy.
Cathy Freeman
— Australian former sprinter, who specialized in the 400 metres eventI am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.
Gisele Bundchen
— Brazilian model, activist, and businesswomanMy 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
— American supermodel and actressLondon 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
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodSearch then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
Andy Cohen
— American ProducerFollow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Aerin Lauder
— American BusinesswomanEstee 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
— British ActressThe 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
— French PhilosopherHow can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
— American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football playerWWE 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
— NovelistStuart 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.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWhen 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.