300 Passion Quotes

The definition of “passion” has evolved quite a bit throughout history. At one time, it meant any strong negative feeling, such as “fear,” “anger,” and “jealousy,” and was often considered the opposite of “reason,” “logic,” and “calmness.”

However, over time, “passion” also came to mean the equally strong—but very positive!—emotion or motivation we can have for anything or anyone we love, especially our “life purpose,” “big dreams,” or “burning desire.”

Whatever your passion is (in the sense of “burning desire”), if you’re a regular reader of this blog, it shouldn’t surprise you to learn that many great minds agree it’s a very good thing; and, without it, you can’t really succeed in finding lasting happiness or satisfaction in life. So, let these quotes inspire you to find your positive passions—as well as to remind you to keep your negative passions in check—all to help you to your bliss!

300 QUOTES ABOUT PASSION

1. Patience is passion tamed.
- Lyman Abbott

2. A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
- John Adams

3. Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.
- Glade Byron Addams

4. Passion is all but soft—it’s not tender—it’s violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
- Isabelle Adjani

5. Passion surprises. One doesn’t search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.
- Isabelle Adjani

6. Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.
- Robert G. Allen

7. I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.
- Pedro Almodovar

8. Without passion, man is a mere latent force and possibility—like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel

9. Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel

10. Do it, no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you, or your family, does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But, if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
- Mario Andretti

11. Desire is the key to motivation; but, it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
- Mario Andretti

12. Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
- Maya Angelou

13. Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas

14. There are two types of people in the world: People who are passionate about things; and, people who’ve had their passion punched, beaten, or, whatever, out of them.
- Kevyn Aucoin

15. When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
- Margery Allingham

16. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- Aristotle

17. The law is reason, free from passion.
- Aristotle

18. It is easy to fly into a passion—anybody can do that—but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way—that is not easy; and, it is not everyone who can do it.
- Aristotle

19. Our passion is our strength.
- Billie Joe Armstrong

20. All humanity is passion. Without passion—religion, history, romance, and art would be ineffectual.
- Honore de Balzac

21. For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots—especially during youth.
- Honore De Balzac

22. Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
- James M. Barrie

23. What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
- Roland Barthes

24. I do today from memory what yesterday I did in passion.
- Gerald Barzan

25. For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer, it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting, and the infinite. To be away from home, and yet to feel at home anywhere. To see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world—such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense, and impartial spirits who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.
- Charles Baudelaire

26. I had learnt to seek intensity … more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
- Nina Berberova

27. Mere enthusiasm is the all in all …
Passion and expression are beauty itself.
- William Blake

28. Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
- William Blake

29. 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 principals which direct them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

30. What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that, if passion dies, or is denied, we are partly dead, and, that, soon—come what may—we will be wholly so.
- John Boorman

31. The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
- Nadia Boulanger

32. Men live by intervals of reason, under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
- Thomas Browne

33. As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
- Thomas Browne

34. Follow your passion; and, success will follow you.
- Arthur Buddhold

35. He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause—to an ardent, generous, perhaps, an immoderate, passion for fame—a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- Edmund Burke

36. Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- Edmund Burke

37. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke

38. I do like to work with young directors because it’s such a difficult business that I think, after directors have been around a while, sometimes—not always—but, sometimes, their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.
- Ellen Burstyn

39. Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside … Everyone has to find it for themselves.
- Candace Bushnell

40. There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
- George Byron

41. As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
- Lord Byron

42. One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That’s why I think it is important to stay passionate.
- Nicolas Cage

43. One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they’re not in touch with their passion. If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.
- Jack Canfield

44. I think there’s too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don’t really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning because they’ve been forced to learn the required courses rather than pursing their passion.
- Jack Canfield

45. If you have only one passion in life—football—and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity, it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
- Eric Cantona

46. I think you do better when you are really up for it ’cause passion goes up.
- Jim Capaldi

47. The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won’t, in the end, affirm or deny anything.
- Thomas Carlyle

48. There is a passion for perfection, which you will rarely see fully developed; but, you may note this fact, that, in successful lives, it is never wholly lacking.
- Bliss Carman

49. Man is free; yet, we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases; for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
- Giacomo Casanova

50. It’s stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective, and are able to align the interest of a great team.
- Steve Case

51. If you’re doing something new, you’ve got to have a vision. You’ve got to have a perspective. You’ve got to have some north star you’re aiming for. And, you just believe somehow you’ll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.
- Steve Case

52. I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL; and, I strongly believe that AOL—once the leading Internet company in the world—can return to its past greatness.
- Steve Case

53. Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
- Julia Child

54. Happy is he who has laid up in his youth—and held fast in all fortune—a genuine and passionate love for reading.
- Rufus Choate

55. To have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life. And, there are three components to that purpose: one is to find out who you really are, to discover God; the second is to serve other human beings, because we are here to do that; and, the third is to express your unique talents, and, when you are expressing your unique talents, you lose track of time.
- Deepak Chopra

56. A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one’s own path—not chasing after the dreams of others.
- Chin-Ning Chu

57. He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
- Cicero

58. We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise; and, the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
- Cicero

59. I’ve lost a little bit of my fire … I don’t want to say I’ve lost my passion.
- Roger Clemens

60. When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one—and, you reach that deep well where passion lives—nothing is impossible.
- Nancy Coey

61. Hope arouses—as nothing else can arouse—a passion for the possible.
- William Sloan Coffin

62. And, although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work.
- Benjamin Cohen

63. You have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise, you sound false. You end up telling the audience jokes they’ve already heard.
- Stephen Colbert

64. The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do—an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning and through your day with a spring in your step.
- Jim Collins

65. Wealth and rank are what people desire; but, unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
- Confucius

66. Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation, and darkness.
- Cyril Connolly

67. If you have ever felt such tremendous enthusiasm and desire for something that you would gladly spend all your waking hours working on it—that you would happily do without pay—then you have found your passion.
- Sharon Cook & Graciela Sholander

68. Anything you build on a large scale, or with intense passion, invites chaos.
- Francis Ford Coppola

69. Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind—but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor, and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
- Ralph Cudworth

70. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
- Anthony J. D’Angelo

71. Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
- Anthony J. D’Angelo

72. Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
- Leonardo da Vinci

73. My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
- Bette Davis

74. The strongest passion is fear.
- Jean de la Fontaine

75. Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
- Jean de la Fontaine

76. Today a new sun rises for me. Everything lives. Everything is animated. Everything seems to speak to me of my passion. Everything invites me to cherish it.
- Ninon de l’Enclos

77. None but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
- Comte de Mirabeau

78. We have to set our own agenda. We have to set our own standards. We have to be very strong about what we want. We have to be very strong about our passion. And, if it’s not right for you, you shouldn’t do it just because you’re advised by so-called geniuses.
- Jackie DeShannon

79. Only passions—great passions—can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot

80. There is only one passion—the passion for happiness.
- Denis Diderot

81. Man is only great when he acts from passion.
- Benjamin Disraeli

82. So try to pursue the very things that you are passionate about—that is the difference between good and great!
- Shawn Doyle

83. People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that’s completely opposite of the truth.
- Ann Druyan

84. Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
- Olympia Dukakis

85. My mother’s passion for something more—to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer’s daughter—was to shape my entire life.
- Faye Dunaway

86. Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth—to make truth laugh—because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
- Umberto Eco

87. My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.
- Albert Einstein

88. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein

89. There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
- George Eliot

90. It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
- T. S. Eliot

91. A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
- T. S. Eliot

92. Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

93. Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

94. Judgment, not passion, should prevail.
- Epicharmus

95. You need great passion because everything you do with great pleasure you do well.
- Juan Manuel Fangio

96. My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage; and, she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
- Carly Fiorina

97. Anything is possible as long as you have the passion.
- Guy Forget

98. There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ”politicians” think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force—not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas … that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
- Michel Foucault

99. If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
- Brendan Francis

100. If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
- Benjamin Franklin

101. If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.
- Benjamin Franklin

102. I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
- Stephen Fry

103. A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
- Thomas Fuller

104. But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize. Their hearts desire, their dream … But, the price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.
- Neil Gaiman

105. Rest in reason; move in passion.
- Khalil Gibran

106. Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas—for reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
- Khalil Gibran

107. Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
- Khalil Gibran

108. Revolutions are the produce of passion—not of sober and tranquil reason.
- William Godwin

109. There can be no passion and, by consequence, no love where there is not imagination.
- William Godwin

110. Our passion are the true phoenixes. When the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
- Goethe

111. Passion can quickly slip to jealousy or, even, hatred.
- Arthur Golden

112. We all need to look into the dark side of our nature; that’s where the energy is—the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we’re busy denying.
- Sue Grafton

113. Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
- Martha Graham

114. I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
- Zane Grey

115. The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
- Moses Hadas

116. Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive “nows.”
- Sue Halpern

117. If you don’t love what you do, you won’t do it with much conviction or passion.
- Mia Hamm

118. Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth, by his will, into action.
- James Harrington

119. Anyone can like their job … To love your job is not enough; you must give your passion to your job.
- Zahi Hawass

120. I love snowboarding; but, I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating; and, skating is my passion.
- Tony Hawk

121. The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things; but, my passion is not so scattered and it’s not needy. It’s a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness—that it’s about the process, not about the results.
- Salma Hayek

122. A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
- William Hazlitt

123. I didn’t want to repeat my parents’ life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And, I didn’t want to live without passion.
- Hugh Hefner

124. Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

125. Fear is the passion of slaves.
- Patrick Henry

126. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
- Napoleon Hill

127. When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
- Napoleon Hill

128. Making sure our goals are properly aligned with our passions only makes sense.
- Josh Hinds

129. Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
- Eric Hoffer

130. There is, in most passions, a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
- Eric Hoffer

131. The necessary has never been man’s top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man’s greatest exertions are made in the pursuit, not of necessities, but, of superfluities.
- Eric Hoffer

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

133. Through our great good fortune, in our youth, our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

134. I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

135. Subdue your passion, or it will subdue you.
- Horace

136. Reason is a passion, an instinct, a drive.
- Bette Howland

137. What I have to do now is figure where my passion is and follow my heart. I’ve proven that if I have the passion for something, then I can succeed. I haven’t been listening to my heart in the last little while.
- Clara Hughes

138. Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
- Aldous Huxley

139. What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it because you’ll be lousy at it. You don’t have to stay with a job for the rest of your life because if you don’t like it you’ll never be successful in it.
- Lee Iacocca

140. Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
- Ice T

141. That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion, which was the motorcycle, and, in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
- Jacky Ickx

142. Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
- Muhammed Iqbal

143. My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
- Steve Irwin

144. I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
- Steve Irwin

145. Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes, or even crimes of passion against the oppressor, feel that they are really guilty.
- George Jackson

146. Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame;
Each to his passion; what’s in a name?
- Helen Hunt Jackson

147. We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion; and, our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
- Henry James

148. Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
- Samuel Johnson

149. Curiosity is—in great and generous minds—the first passion and the last.
- William Samuel Johnson

150. It is reason—and not passion—which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
- Barbara Jordan

151. I truly love the game. I wouldn’t be playing if I didn’t love the game. I’m not getting paid astronomical dollars. It’s truly for the love of the game of basketball.
- Michael Jordan

152. Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
- Jon Bon Jovi

153. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
- James Joyce

154. A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
- Carl Jung

155. You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.
- Garrison Keillor

156. Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far; but, none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard

157. If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential—for the eye, which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Soren Kierkegaard

158. The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki

159. I’m very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can’t imagine a life without passion.
- Sylvia Kristel

160. Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.
- Kris Kristofferson

161. Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn’t give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
- Mike Krzyzewski

162. What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
- Stanley Kunitz

163. I am an actress and acting is my passion … period!
- Christine Lahti

164. For us sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
- Wilfrid Laurier

165. He submits to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater

166. Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
- D. H. Lawrence

167. This is the very worst wickedness—that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
- D. H. Lawrence

168. I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.
- Chris LeDoux

169. It is with our passions as it is with fire and water: they are good servants but bad masters.
- Roger L’Estrange

170. I can appreciate anybody’s passion for anything.
- Kristanna Loken

171. Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that, however high we reach, we are never satisfied.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

172. Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.
- Alex Lowe

173. Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
- James Russell Lowell

174. Passion leads; prudence points the way.
- Robert Lowth

175. If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It’s very important that you find something that you care about—that you have a deep passion for—because you’re going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.
- George Lucas

176. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we’re actually unhappy. Emotion is good. Passion is good. Being into what we’re into—provided that it’s a healthy pursuit—it’s a good thing.
- Frank Luntz

177. There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

178. No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from. But, the seeds of every passion are innate to us; and, nobody comes into the world without them.
- Bernard de Mandeville

179. Our destiny changes with our thought. We shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
- Orison Swett Marden

180. Dispassionate objectivity is, itself, a passion for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow

181. There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
- George Mason

182. Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood. It must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
- Rollo May

183. Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
- Hattie McDaniel

184. Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
- William McFee

185. There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn’t have a passion for it.
- Matthew McGrory

186. One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to do, is worth all of the good thought, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves.
- David McKay

187. We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
- Mignon McLauglin

188. The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task; courage to go out on a limb; and, an impeccable sense of balance.
- Bryan Miller

189. Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
- Henry Miller

190. The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
- Czeslaw Milosz

191. Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
- Angela Monet

192. There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
- Michel de Montaigne

193. Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
- Michel de Montaigne

194. There is no nation so powerful as the one that obeys its laws, not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
- Charles de Montesquieu

195. The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
- Marianne Moore

196. A goal is not the same as a desire; and, this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don’t intend to act on. But, you can’t have a goal you don’t intend to act on.
- Tom Morris

197. You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don’t have the cast of mind, you’re destined for failure, even if you have a high I.Q.
- Charles Munger

198. Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
- Iris Murdoch

199. News … communicating news and ideas, I guess … is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read and alternative television channels.
- Rupert Murdoch

200. My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.
- Michael Musto

201. Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

202. The will to overcome a passion is, in the end, merely the will of another or several other passions.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

203. The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
- Earl Nightingale

204. In middle age, we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment, are self-made.
Kathleen Norris

205. Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
- Joyce Carol Oates

206. My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
- Gary Oldman

207. I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.
- Pierre Omidyar

208. I’ve got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And, that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.
- Pierre Omidyar

209. Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too. This is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves.
- Blaise Pascal

210. Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
- Blaise Pascal

211. You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
- Jason Patric

212. The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.
- Luciano Pavarotti

213. Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it’s something you’re tremendously passionate about.
- Steve Pavlina

214. The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way.
- Plato

215. Passion is the mob of the man that commits a riot upon his reason.
- William Penn

216. Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
- William Penn

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

218. With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
- Edgar Allan Poe

219. If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
- Roman Polanski

220. The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
- Alexander Pope

221. On life’s vast ocean, diversely, we sail. Reason’s the card; but, passion the gale.
- Alexander Pope

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

223. We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
- Francois Rabelais

224. A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
- Ayn Rand

225. Just having hope ain’t going to cut it. You’ve got to have hope, passion, and skills.
- Tim Reid

226. The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
- Adrienne Rich

227. Passion is the genesis of genius.
- Anthony Robbins

228. Live with passion!
- Anthony Robbins

229. I’m a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
- Brooks Robinson

230. We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.
- James Harvey Robinson

231. If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

232. Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men—and makes the biggest idiots clever.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

233. The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

234. Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
- François de la Rochefoucauld

235. Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

236. My passion and great enjoyment for architecture; and, the reason, the older I get, the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we architects can effect the quality of life of the people.
- Richard Rogers

237. Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
- Jim Rohn

238. Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
- Joseph Roux

239. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
– Rumi

240. Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect, and passion, in their operation.
- John Ruskin

241. Three passions—simple, but, overwhelmingly, strong—have governed my life: the longing for love; the search for knowledge; and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
- Bertrand Russell

242. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
- Carl Sandburg

243. It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
- George Santayana

244. We must act out passion before we can feel it.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

245. Never underestimate the power of passion.
- Eve Sawyer

246. The worst sin—perhaps the only sin—passion can commit is to be joyless.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

247. A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven’t got any of your own.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

248. I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But, when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
- Charles Schumer

249. It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance, than to control them after they have been admitted.
- Seneca

250. Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
- Peter Shaffer

251. There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

252. The future may be made up of many factors; but, where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashe your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
- Li Ka Shing

253. Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.
- Willie Shoemaker

254. Follow your passion.
- Joel Siegel

255. Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
- Luisa Sigea

256. Infinitely more important than sharing one’s material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves—our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
- William E. Simon

257. Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power—a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
- Marcia Sinetar

258. In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
- Jane Smiley

259. Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
- W. Eugene Smith

260. Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
- Bishop Robert South

261. Desire is the very essence of man.
- Baruch Spinoza

262. Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
- Laurence Sterne

263. There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love.
- Susie Switzer

264. If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing—if you have a passion for it—then stop wishing and just do it.
- Wanda Sykes

265. Were the passionate visible, all we would go blind.
- Jareb Teague

266. The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery, of his passions.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

267. Anger is a momentary madness; so, control your passion or it will control you.
- G. M. Trevelyan

268. Without passion, you don’t have energy; without energy, you have nothing.
- Donald Trump

269. Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
- Harriet Tubman

270. There is no poison on earth more potent—nor half so deadly—as a partial truth mixed with passion.
- Michael J. Tucker

271. Passion and strife bow down the mind.
- Virgil

272. Chase your passion, not your pension.
- Denis Waitley

273. Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.
- Marcia Wieder

274. The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
- Paul Wellstone

275. Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.
- John Wesley

276. If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it’s the best way to learn.
- Randy West

277. It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
- Rebecca West

278. To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
- Richard Whately

279. Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping … waiting … and though unwanted … unbidden … it will stir … open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us … guides us … passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love … the clarity of hatred … and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we’d know some kind of peace … but we would be hollow … Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we’d be truly dead.
- John Whedon

280. Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And, then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Harold Whitman

281. Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.
- Marcia Wieder

282. With care, and skill, and cunning art,
She parried Time’s malicious dart,
And kept the years at bay,
Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

283. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde

284. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
- Oscar Wilde

285. The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.
- Oscar Wilde

286. I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate, and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
- Barry Williams

287. If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
- E. O. Wilson

288. Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
- Oprah Winfrey

289. It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
- Steve Winwood

290. My three P’s: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you’ve got to be a filmmaker.
- Robert Wise

291. The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature—something deep inside the heart.
- John Woo

292. I love to play golf, and that’s my arena. And, you can characterize it and describe it however you want; but, I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.
- Tiger Woods

293. My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery—always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?
- Virginia Woolf

294. Faith is a passionate intuition.
- William Wordsworth

295. Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face. The predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others’ retiring.
- Mary Wortley

296. Any guy that’s not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don’t want to know.
- Zakk Wylde

297. I think a lot of times it’s not money that’s the primary motivation factor; it’s the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
- Martin Yan

298. A lot of people don’t enjoy their job, they may even hate it; but, I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.
- Martin Yan

299. Renew your passions daily.
- Abbe Yeux-Verde

300. After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
- Philip Zimbardo

CONCLUSION

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