Passion Quotes - page 3

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. (Anthony Powell)

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.

Ben Carson

Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're doing every day.

Marcus Buckingham

Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

John Locke

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Honoré de Balzac

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

Barbara Broccoli

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.

Gordon Ramsay

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

Lakshmi Mittal

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession. (Alfred Stieglitz)

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

Pythagoras

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Pythagoras

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Thomas Jefferson

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.

James K. Polk

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

William James

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

Blaise Pascal

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

Marissa Mayer

Alas it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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)

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Roland Barthes

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

Frank Gehry

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Henry Miller

The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.

George Bernard Shaw

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