Passion Quotes

• I was something of a problem kid. I was emotional, wild, rebellious at school. I'm very touched by kids who don't have advantages; they are much more interesting than kids who have everything. They have a lot of passion and emotion, such a strong will.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • School
  • Kids
  • Strong

• Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Game
  • Team
  • Politics

• I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• People like passion in politics.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Passion
  • Politics

• Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Passion
  • Painting
  • Voice

• There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.

  

  John Singleton
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Career

• My sexuality is not black and white. I'm a gay man who has occasionally drifted. I am not bi. I've had perfectly pleasant romances with women, but they weren't sustainable. My passion wasn't there. I would always be looking at guys.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Women
  • Black
  • Gay

• What is the main thing in love? To know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Passion

• All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Information

• If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Passion

• Dance was something I'd just done at my youth club, and I used to teach dance when I was 14 to 19, 20 years old. I had my own dance group, and then I got more into the acting stuff, and I started doing things for TV. And then I put that on pause, because I really wanted to focus on my real passion, which is music.

  

  Little Simz
  • Music
  • Real
  • Done

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• My parents taught me that having a passion is a rare thing, so following it through and working hard, even when it's tough, is important.

  

  Jessica Springsteen
  • Important
  • Parents
  • Passion

• Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.

  

  Pete Docter
  • Work
  • Passion

• I come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could be the same. But New Zealand takes it to another dimension. It's extraordinary how much passion Kiwis have for the game.

  

  Luke Evans
  • World
  • Country
  • Game

• If the attitude is there… if the vibe is there… if I put fourth the passion I know this band is about… I might not know much today… but I know the intensity and the passion that surrounds this band… and what’s expected within and outside the band… there’s just an expectation that you go with these things.

  

  Jay Weinberg Against Me!
  • Band
  • Attitude
  • Expectation

• 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
  • World
  • Quality
  • Habit

• I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

  

  Enzo Ferrari
  • Life
  • Time
  • Passion

• The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

  

  Shakira
  • Dad
  • Passion
  • Football

• Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

  

  Alex Newell
  • Done
  • Passion
  • Singing

• What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Different
  • Passion
  • motivation

• Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Passion
  • Avarice
  • Dominion

• The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• The call of God is to preach the gospel--namely, the reality of redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. The one passion of Paul's life was to proclaim the gospel of God. He welcomed heartbreak, disillusionment , and tribulation for only one reason--these things kept him unmovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Reality

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