Passion Quotes

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Sylvia Plath

With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.
Donald Trump

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time.

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left.
Ginger Rogers

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
Robert Plant

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.
Snoop Dogg

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Great 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.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Thomas Hardy

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
Tom Petty

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Ezra Pound

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
Ozzy Osbourne

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.
Shania Twain

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
Elvis Costello

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
Cleopatra

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
Hugh Hefner

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
Martha Graham

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles Schwab

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
Fiona Apple

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.
Leo Burnett

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
Pele

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
Tom Cruise

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles de Gaulle

Each time I play a song it seems more real.
Robert Smith

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
Samuel Beckett

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
Joan Didion

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
David Lee Roth

Chase your passion, not your pension.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

We were the Spice Boys.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.
Charles King