Quotes about passion (2160 quotes, page 22)

“Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.”

William Sloane Coffin (1924–2006) American activist

Hope , Hope

“My 'idea' has always been my passion. Not only do I have to be a good photographer technically, but also have to be able to capture the emotion of the moment.”

Austin Cofran

Idea

“The world is miserable because men live beneath themselves; the error of modern man is that he wants to reform the world without having either the will or the power to reform man, and this flagrant contradiction, this attempt to make a better world on the basis of a worsened humanity, can only end in the very abolition of what is human, and consequently in the abolition of happiness too. Reforming man means binding him again to Heaven, reestablishing the broken link; it means tearing him away from the reign of the passions, from the cult of matter, quantity and cunning, and reintegrating him into the world of the spirit and serenity, we would even say: into the world of sufficient reason.”

Frithjof Schuon book Understanding Islam

[1998, Understanding Islam, World Wisdom, 26, 0-941532-24-0]
Miscellaneous, Modernity

Tear , Men , Happiness , World

“I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms.”

Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice

History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, Preface, p. 34
Referenced

Truth , Lying , Way , Love

“I think that as long as somebody feels passion and there’s passion behind the words, it doesn’t really matter how loud or soft they are, they’ll reach you.”

Alisen Down (1976) Canadian actress

Source: 12 Monkeys: Alisen Down On Why We Love Olivia https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/12-monkeys-alisen-down-on-why-we-love-olivia/ (July 6, 2018)

Thinking , Feeling

“And even when passions run high, elegance does not allow the real ties binding two people to be broken.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance

People

“Every human thought passes at the moment of its development into the external world, where it becomes an active being … Consequently, a person continuously inhabits the path he traverses in world space with a multitude of images representing child of his fantasies, desires, aspirations and passions.”

Pierre Piobb (1874–1942) French ophthalmologist (1874-1942)

Source: Book Ancient Higher Magic

Personality , World

“There’s always going to be challenges and barriers, but you have to be adaptable and go, "OK, if that’s not going to work for me, then this is a passion I have as well."”

Mary Elizabeth Winstead (1984) American actress and singer

I was passionate about a lot of things in the performing arts, so I was lucky ballet wasn’t the only love in my professional life. I wanted to perform, and I didn’t feel ballet was going to allow me to do that to the extent that I wanted to. Acting seemed like a good transition from that.
Interview with Glamour Magazine (26 April 2017)

“The most incisive, passionate and transgressive vibration begins with your kiss.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La vibrazione più incisiva, passionale e trasgressiva inizia con il tuo bacio.
Source: prevale.net

Kiss

“Seduction and attraction carry your name. You are my obsession, you are in the world to be my greatest passion.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Seduzione ed attrazione portano il tuo nome. Tu sei la mia ossessione, sei al mondo per essere la mia più grande passione.
Source: prevale.net

World

“Filmmaking is a journey. Some people are lucky, they get instant success but for others it’s a process, it’s not something that can be achieved in a day. You might even get success overnight but the effort, the dedication, the passion and the love for making films are a continuous process.”

Rima Das (1982) Indian Assamese film maker

Hindustan Times Article - Filmmaking is a journey, says Rima Das - 22 May 2020 https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/filmmaking-is-a-journey-says-rima-das/story-a1CstyaT4LaGfdBrJ8AzMM.html - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210728190259/https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/filmmaking-is-a-journey-says-rima-das/story-a1CstyaT4LaGfdBrJ8AzMM.html

People , Success , Love , Effort

“There's a wild thing that exists in all of us. It lives in our passions, in the people we love, in our subconscious thoughts, our beliefs. It's even made a home in the darkest parts of us, but we can't be scared of it, we have to become it.”

Alessia Cara (1996) Canadian singer

"Wild Things" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De30ET0dQpQ, Know-It-All (2015), New York: Def Jam Recordings

Home , People , Love , Parting

“I made it my dual passion to incorporate environmental sustainability into my swimwear designs”

Cassandra Kuzneski

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/07/26/swimsuit-trends-summer-2021/?sh=7e969c4a15d5

“Thank God – because what are you going to write about if you don’t struggle as a child? I don’t think that you become creative because you have struggled, no, but creative people are fuelled by anger and passion, and haunted by demons and memories.”

Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer

On how her miserable childhood may have inadvertently affected her writing in “The incredible life of Isabel Allende” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/10589928/The-incredible-life-of-Isabel-Allende.html in The Telegraph (2014 Jan 28)

God , People , Memory , Anger

“I want to follow the instinct, the passion of my desire, once unspeakable. The moments of love serve to remind us that our condition tends to happiness!”

Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet

Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
Theater Quotes

Happiness , Love

“I can summarize the painful lesson in one sentence: We must not slack off or allow mediocrity, and we must remain dedicated and inspire passion throughout the organization.”

Ren Zhengfei (1944) Chinese businessman

Interview with CNBC (October 4, 2019)

Pain

“How futile it had all been, that superhuman gallantry! It had amounted, in the end, to nothing but a passionate gesture of negation—the negation of all that the centuries had taught themselves through long eons of pain.”

Vera Brittain book Testament of Youth

Source: Testament of Youth (1933), Chapter XII 'Another Stranger'

Pain

“There are so few times in life where you are passionate about anything. And I think that if you can find that, you should just hold on to it and protect it at all costs and just follow it, because it's so rare.”

Kelly Marie Tran (1989) American actress

As quoted in "Kelly Marie Tran thought she'd quit acting — then The Last Jedi put her dream into hyperdrive" in Entertainment Weekly (20 November 2017) https://ew.com/movies/2017/11/20/kelly-marie-tran-star-wars-the-last-jedi/

Time , Thinking , Life

“It’s the passion that keeps me in this industry, no amount of money could make me do what I do if I didn’t have passion.”

Ann-Margret (1941) Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer

Ann-Margret shares her story about life and love https://lifestories.productions/iblog/ann-margret-shares-her-story-about-life-and-love/ (April 19, 2020)

Money

“The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning, or some sudden force of the Passions. Defect in the Understanding, is Ignorance; in Reasoning, Erroneous Opinion.”

Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 27, p. 152
Leviathan (1651)

Understanding , Error

“Yes; as the music changes,
Like a prismatic glass,
It takes the light and ranges
Through all the moods that pass;
Dissects the common carnival
Of passions and regrets,
And gives the world a glimpse of all
The colours it forgets.”

Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet

The Barrel Organ
Poems (1906)

Light , World , Mood , Change

“Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.”

Arsenius the Great (354–449) Desert Father

Sayings of the Desert Fathers, as translated by Benedicta Ward, SLG (Cistercian Publications: 1975), Saying 9, Page 10

God

“We have not been taught to kill our bodies, but to kill our passions.”

Poemen (340–450) Egyptian monk and desert father

Saying 184
Context: Abba Isaac came to see Abba Poemen and found him washing his feet. As he enjoyed freedom of speech with him he said, "How is it that others practice austerity and treat their bodies hardly?" Abba Poemen said to him, "We have not been taught to kill our bodies, but to kill our passions."

“I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.”

Dave Bautista (1969) American actor and professional wrestler

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Sport , Strong

“The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VIII, 48

Future , Flying

“You care passionately about this thing…That is what makes you so valuable. That and your talents, your allergies, your tame pathologies, the things that make you a secret legend in the world of marketing.”

William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy

Source: Blue Ant trilogy, Pattern Recognition (2003), Chapter 7, "The Proposition" (Bigend to Cayce, about the footage)

World , Secret

“We don’t only depend on “images” to arouse passion and excitement in our lives. More importantly, we must have a rational spirit and help each other move forward. After all, “images” are just a means of getting one’s foot in the door.”

Bo Xilai (1949) former Politburo member of the Communist Party of China

Source: Excerpts of letter to his first wife (14 July 1975)

Dependency , Help

“To become successful in anything, you need to first of all love what you do and have a strong passion for it. You also need to build up your skills, read widely, study your craft, and keep on setting bigger targets for yourself.”

Stephanie Okereke Linus (1982) Nigerian Actress and singer

Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exclusive-interview-with-_37_b_11591236 During an interview (December 6 2017)

Study , Strong , Reading , Success

“To remain satisfied and grateful for the pleasure of the Beloved, at the cost of religion and heart is necessarily passionate love, which in Sufi terminology is called faithfulness.”

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 271

Faith , Religion , Love , Heart

“The gnostic (arif) attains the station of passionate love of God so that he may experience Godhead or His pure Essence.”

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1235) Indian Sufi

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 264

God , Love

“When Divine providence graces you, and you are endowed with passion of love and alienated from your ego, at that time Divine love enters your inmost being and He shows His Beauty to you.”

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 270

Time , Beauty , Love

“Not everyone can be multi-skilled, but everyone can be the best in what they are passionate about just with practice and consistency.”

Rachit Yadav (1996) Indian Author

In the news

“Next time you get lost in thought, pay attention to where you went for therein lies your inner passion.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Future Proofing You (2021)

Time

“Too many people believe that they have to wait until they are wealthy to follow their passion, when in fact, it will be their passion that will make them wealthy.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Future Proofing You (2021)

Waiting , People

“I learned that comprehending someone’s heartache is, unfortunately, very often the only way to stop condemning them…I learned that most of us wouldn’t necessarily do certain things over again—like not partake in a moment of passion—even if we know how long it might stay with us/hurt us.”

Lisa Taddeo (1980) American writer and journalist

Source: On what she learned after completing Three Women in “Three Women Author Lisa Taddeo: ‘You Are Seen’” https://www.bookish.com/articles/lisa-taddeo-three-women-interview/ in Bookish (2019 Jul 9)

Hurt , Learning , Way

“The way things used to be
not so long ago
when we were young and free.
The way things used to be
not so long ago
you were loving me
every night and every day, strong in every way
passion glowing like a fire, burning with desire.
Whatever happened?”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"The Way Things Used To Be" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "The Way Things Used To Be" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_p37g6xRU (song on YouTube)
Song lyrics

Strong , Way , Night , Love

“Power is habit-forming. We grew addicted to it. Few things survive the centuries’ slow decay: senses grow dull; passions grow weak; and ideals die. Only the taste for power lives on as an excuse for survival.”

Jack Williamson book Star Bridge

Source: Star Bridge (1955), Chapter 20, “Prime Mover” (p. 275)

Sense

“A just man stand's on the side of the right with such conviction, thát neither the passion of a mob, nor the violence of a despot can make him overstep the bounds of reason.”

Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher

“Most people neither hear nor understand God speaking in their hearts: they listen to the urging of passion, which inhabits the soul and with its clamour drowns the still small voice of God.”

Sophrony (Sakharov) (1896–1993) Russian monk, theologian and writer

Source: Saint Silouan the Athonite (1991), p. 79

Soul , God , Understanding , People

“The positive aspect is that it is a job that varies from day to day. Events and news are always new. Then it is a great advantage to combine work and passion.”

Roberta Floris (1979) italian journalist, television presenter and former model (1979)

Source: From the interview with de Il Viaggio Magico, Il Viaggio Magico interview with Roberta Floris http://www.viaggiomagico.net/intervista.php?id=48, Viaggio Magico, viaggiomagico.net.

“The Church carries out its mission through the help provided by the offerings of the faithful. And we don't know how much people will be able to give. Precisely for this reason we must be sober, rigorous. We must manage the finances with the passion and diligence of a good family man”

Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves (1959) Roman Catholic clergyman

Guerrero: Holy See’s bottom line is in view of mission https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2020-05/guerrero-holy-see-economy-mission-deficit-default-income-expense.html (13 May 2020)

People , Family , Faith , Help

“To build unity requires recognizing the central role of young activists. They are vigorously fighting the attack on this century's Reconstruction. Their anger at today's ugly society often translates into a passionate drive for unity across color lines.”

Elizabeth Martinez (1925) American community organizer, activist, author, and educator

De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (2017)

Anger , Color , Fight

“(Finding your place)"At first it was my passion, but now it is my purpose. "
-Engr. Abah Sule-”

Engr.Abah Sule

“Burns's gifts, expressed in conversation, are the theme of all that ever heard him. All kinds of gifts: from the gracefulest utterances of courtesy, to the highest fire of passionate speech; loud floods of mirth, soft wailings of affection, laconic emphasis, clear piercing insight; all was in him.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters

“He told of journeys, of where sun and moon go while we stand in dark,
of an earth-journey he dreamed he would take some day
deeper than roots ...
He told of the dreams of man, wars, passions, griefs,
and I, a tree, understood words – ah, it seemed my thick bark would split like a sapling's that grew too fast in the spring when a late frost wounds it.”

Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet

A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)

Tree , Spring , War , Sun

“Where there is no passion, no relationship can last.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Dove non esista passione, non può durare nessuna relazione.
Source: prevale.net

“LIFE LESSONS FROM ENGR. ABAH SULE BIOGRAPHY -My Life And Passion For Reading " When I was a child, I taught as a child, I spoke as a child and I understood as a child thinking that freedom is free. But when I became a man I put away childish things, i realized that it was not true, freedom is not free it is what we fight for everyday for our children and for the next generation. -Engr. Abah Sule”

Engr.Abah Sule

Freedom , Children , Reading , Thinking

“LIFE LESSONS FROM ENGR. ABAH SULE BIOGRAPHY -My Life And Passion For Reading " When I was a child, I taught as a child, I spoke as a child and I understood as a child thinking that freedom is free. But when I became a man I put away childish things, i realized that it was not true, freedom is not free it is what we fight for everyday for our children and for the next generation. -Engr. Abah Sule”

Engr.Abah Sule

Freedom , Children , Reading , Thinking

“WHAT BROUGHT MY POSSESSION INTO EXISTENCE -My Greatest Discovery " When I was 12, i discovered that i it was only my external self that was existing alone, when I became 14, i realized that they were two of me that have been existing since before my first discovery. That was my passion, now my purpose second discovery, at that point they were a lot of options and alternative to choose, then i first go, not just for the easiest, but for the most easiest for my possession. ( that's why little mistakes are far from me ). -Engr. Abah Sule”

Engr.Abah Sule

“WHAT BROUGHT MY POSSESSION INTO EXISTENCE -My Greatest Discovery " When I was 12, i discovered that i it was only my external self that was existing alone, when I became 14, i realized that they were two of me that have been existing since before my first discovery. That was my passion, now my purpose second discovery, at that point they were a lot of options and alternative to choose, then i first go, not just for the easiest, but for the most easiest for my possession. ( that's why little mistakes are far from me ). -Engr. Abah Sule”

Engr.Abah Sule

“LIFE LESSONS FROM ENGR. ABAH SULE BIOGRAPHY -My Life And Passion For Reading " When I was a child, I taught as a child, I spoke as a child and I understood as a child thinking that freedom is free. But when I became a man I put away childish things, i realized that it was not true, freedom is not free it is what we fight for everyday for our children and for the next generation. -Engr. Abah Sule”

Engr.Abah Sule

Freedom , Children , Reading , Thinking

“Pornography is definitely not a reflection of real life. Accepted or rejected, it will always be at odds. However, sexual expression in pornography is a celebration of the denial of women's dignity. For a man, it is an affirmation of the myth of masculinity to dominate, to rule and to show his might. Conversely, for a woman, sex must be accepted as a form of willingness to be submissive, to submit to the destruction of her own dignity. In pornography there is no love, no passion or drama. There is only manipulation of the body, the mind and the lowly human desire to be satisfied. That humans cannot be separated from animalistic lust.”

Titon Rahmawan

Love , Life , Women , Sex

“Giving and receiving love is one of the wonders of existence. Loving is attention, protection, care and passion. Love: it is daring to give your heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Dare e ricevere amore è una delle meraviglie dell'esistenza. Amare è attenzione, protezione, cura e passione. L'amore: è osare donare il proprio cuore.
Source: prevale.net

Heart , Love

“In every experimentation, without the passion, failure would arise on the birth of any idea.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: In ogni sperimentazione, senza la passione, il fallimento sorgerebbe sul nascere di qualsiasi idea.
Source: prevale.net

Birth , Idea , Failure

“Love without passion has no value.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: L'amore senza passione non ha alcun valore.
Source: prevale.net

Love

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“Robert Pistillo he Is an musician artist, creator digital, influencer actor and youtuber athlete, green eyes and 1.84 cm tall, he has long been a huge success in the world of social media, fashion and fitness. He managed to have over 1 million followers on Instagram alone to give an example. Ever since he was a teenager, he has had a strong passion for establishing himself and achieving success.”

Robert Pistillo

Source: Robert Pistillo he Is an musician artist, creator digital, influencer actor and youtuber athlete, green eyes and 1.84 cm tall, he has long been a huge success in the world of social media, fashion and fitness. He managed to have over 1 million followers on Instagram alone to give an example. Ever since he was a teenager, he has had a strong passion for establishing himself and achieving success.

Strong , Fashion , World , Success

“The beauty of a woman is a combination of values: intellect, sympathy, sensuality, physique, simplicity, sweetness, charm, elegance, transgression, passion and culture. Values that make it unique in its nature.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La bellezza di una donna è una combinazione di valori: intelletto, simpatia, sensualità, fisico, semplicità, dolcezza, fascino, eleganza, trasgressione, passione e cultura. Valori che la rendono unica nella sua natura.
Source: prevale.net

Beauty , Nature