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.
Sofia Vergara
— ActressI like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsIf a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
Diana Krall
— Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist & PianistI always wonder what drives us as Artists.
Paul Halmos
— Influential Mathematician & EducatorWhen a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesIf you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!
Daniel Craig
— Iconic James Bond ActorThere'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.
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food WriterI wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorI love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies.
Ben Jonson
— English playwright and poetO! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
Suzy Kassem
— Writer, director, philosopher, poet, and citizen of the worldWhatever 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.
Kate Winslet
— English actressI was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderPassions change, politics are immutable.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistLet passion drive your profession.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistBut 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.
Manolo Blahnik
— Spanish fashion designer and founder of the eponymous high-end shoe brandAlas, 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.
Gabrielle Bernstein
— New York Times Bestselling author, motivational speaker, spiritual leader, and podcast hostAllow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.
Jennifer Lopez
— American singer, actress, and dancerI'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.
Isaac Watts
— English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logicianIt 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.
David Cross
— American stand-up comedian, actor, director and writerYou have to have some level of attachment, you can still have passion and believe but it has to be softened somewhat.
John Adams
— American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding FatherAmbition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.
Jeff Bezos
— American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronautYou don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodAnd hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorNever be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsCommuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesIf you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see. Get so you can draw anything and it looks like what it's supposed to be. It's a lot of work, but if you really have it in you, it's not like work. It becomes fun.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderPassionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistTune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistVanity 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.
Manolo Blahnik
— Spanish fashion designer and founder of the eponymous high-end shoe brandPassion 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."
Jennifer Lopez
— American singer, actress, and dancerI 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.
Isaac Watts
— English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logicianThe passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
John Adams
— American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding FatherHuman passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
Jeff Bezos
— American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronautOne 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.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodIntestine war no more our passions wage,
And giddy factions bear away their rage.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorHomo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsWrite about it by day and dream about it by night.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesIf you enjoy what you do, if you are interested in what you do, I really think that's the best situation.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderMany 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.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistFollow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistIt is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.
John Adams
— American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding FatherHuman 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?
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodWhate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI am very lucky because everything that I do is exciting to me. It's always new.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderGreat ambition is the passion of a great character.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistForget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistWhere ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions
John Adams
— American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding FatherThus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate to the business of restraining the passions of men, of preserving a steady government, and protecting the lives, liberties, and properties of the people . . . . Religion, superstition, oaths, education, laws, all give way before passions, interest, and power, which can be resisted only by passions, interest, and power.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodOn life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorTo love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI always figure I'm not unique, and something that would please me hopefully would please a lot of other people that have the same tastes that I do.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderGreat 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.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistYour true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistThe minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated, and may decay away by insensible degrees.
John Adams
— American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding FatherWhether they be old or young, rich or poor, high or low, wise or foolish, ignorant or learned, every individual is seen to be strongly actuated by a desire to be seen, heard, talked of, approved and respected... a passion for distinction.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodIn men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesIt's hard not to be enthusiastic when you like what you're doing and I love what I do. I love writing stories, I love coming up with ideas for new projects and I love the people I work with, because I work with great writers and artists and directors and actors.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderWhatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistEvery day, passion speaks to us through our feelings. That's why when you allow yourself to become anesthetized by what others think, you literally block yourself from living the life you were called to live. I promise you that if you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart. The people who truly love you want you to love yourself.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistDelicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.
John Adams
— American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding FatherThe law no passion can disturb. 'Tis void of desire and fear, lust and anger. 'Tis mens sine affectu, written reason, retaining some measure of the divine perfection. It does not enjoin that which pleases a weak, frail man, but, without any regard to persons, commands that which is good and punishes evil in all, whether rich or poor, high or low.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodSearch then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI love Marvel and the people there. Im glad I m still part of it.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistHave the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistMen are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
John Adams
— American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding FatherPublic virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superiour to all private passions.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodThe ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistPassion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistAvarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.
John Adams
— American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding FatherFear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodOur passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistIgnoring your passion is like dying a slow death...Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated- what gives you your juice. Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed. You will triumph.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistThe feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodPassions are the gales of life.