Passion Quotes

4884 Passion quotes by 2778 unique authors

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to… — Nikki Sixx
All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it. — Bruce Springsteen
You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper. — Randy Pausch
Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and… — Rajneesh
I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with… — Lorin Maazel
Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product… — Andrea Jung
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. — Aristotle
Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live? — Howard Hughes
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession. — Alfred Stieglitz
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you… — Harold Bloom
The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society. — William Wordsworth
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. — Edward Abbey
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough… — Edward Abbey
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends… — Alexis de Tocqueville
When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among… — George Washington
I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love… — Lionel Richie
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest… — John Quincy Adams
What passion cannot music raise and quell! — John Dryden
My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain… — James Boswell
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. — Abraham Maslow
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to… — Erich Fromm
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is… — Allan Bloom
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same… — Jacques Barzun
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness… — Thucydides
To 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… — Charles Perrault

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