The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
What we reliably find is that people’s perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.
When people are living from passion, they tend to be fulfilled, happy, healthy, and love everyone around them.
This battle for ‘common-sense’ gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, ‘gun control’ legislation. Good news – if you’re a crook.
Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
I’m grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.
Everybody who’s a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.
Don’t let that hunger for the unknown go away. That curiosity is so important, so you should maintain that passion for what you do.
Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.
My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you’re in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.
We believe that we’ll get what we want if we continue to be BTS and know what to do as artists and performers with passion.
I’d rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I’m this face of women’s basketball, when I can’t stand the sport at all.
My only passion is music.
Remember, it isn’t the dreamers who have good lives – it’s the doers. Remember also what I call the three Ps of success: passion, planning, and perseverance.
Live with passion!
I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
I’m inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I’m good at it.
I don’t think you can say yes to every opportunity and work the weekends and work the overnight shift unless you’re really passionate about your job. So I encourage everyone to find their passion and go for it.
Food is a passion for me, especially Italian cuisine. I prefer to have somebody cook for me, but I can do some very nice pasta dishes.
I love the notion of a dude sitting there with an untuned guitar tapping his foot and just singing his passion out; that’s what got me into music in the first place.
I no longer think you can live without passion.
So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn’t believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
I just went up to my mom one day and said, ‘I wanna be on TV. I wanna be a superstar!’ Since I know this is my passion, and I feel like God chose this career for me, I just knew I was ready to do it.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
My passion is definitely to be behind the plate for as long as I can.
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
My previous experiences taught me my true passion was working with the players. I love the business. I love sports. I love everything about the team aspect. But I have this deep appreciation for the players and their perspective.
I’m actually really good at vacuuming, and I don’t even mind it so much. I hate dusting with a passion, and I am not a fan of tidying up, but vacuuming I can do. And mopping floors: I’m not bad at that, either.
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
Dance is my life and I am happy to keep my passion alive.
My passion lies with whatever I’m doing at the time… I only see what is front of me.
I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that – well, my father’s family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.
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?
Whatever you want to follow as your passion, it’s about having the right mental attitude, having the right focus, following your dream and never wavering from it.
Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.
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.
Building takes passion and energy. Maintenance is awful. It’s nothing but fatigue. Once you reach the top, maintaining that beast is awful.
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.
Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture – our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.
I’ve always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.
When you find your passion, it’s great. You go up a mountain with partners, and you have a wonderful opportunity to connect and achieve a goal together. You are not trying to be better than other humans. You are supporting each other.
I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.
I was naive. Before ‘Larrikins,’ I thought passion, hard work, and a skill set will mean that anything you want to do will get done. I don’t think that anymore.
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.
I’ve always wanted to be a good dancer. It used to be my passion.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
I’m an actress. It’s my passion. It’s – I’ve always lived for acting.
Love is something that is genuine, delicate and involves care, passion and attention, and is entirely different to gifts, balls, jewels and circumstance.
Football will always be my foremost passion.
I don’t ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it.
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
