Passion Quotes

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
Philip Zimbardo

After, Half, Greater

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
Jose Marti

Interest, Force, Balanced

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

Great, Government, Themselves

I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.
James McGreevey

Change, Faith, Power

Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.
Todd English

Life, Try, Around

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.
Pedro Almodovar

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
Ai Weiwei

Art, Society, Human

It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.
Miriam Makeba

Work, Women, Together

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
Francoise Sagan

Life, Love, Write

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
Mary Astell

Truth, Knowledge, Woman

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.
James Bovard

Freedom, Hard, Show

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.
Carmen Electra

Love, Music, True

I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections at auditions, and especially when I finally did get something, both my parents have been so supportive and always told me it is all about passion and, if I was doing it because I love it, there's no wrong choice.
Lily Collins

Love, Parents, Wrong

Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.
Andy Serkis

Life, Family, Great

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.
Demi Moore

Work, Sometimes, Creative

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.
Michael Morpurgo

Love, Children, Parents

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
Patrick Swayze

Love, Fear, Powerful

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
Joseph Roux

Good, True, Bad

My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.
Zinedine Zidane

Game, Play, Here

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
Gunter Grass

Art, Fight, Black

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?
George Byron

Life, Themselves, State

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
Malcolm Turnbull

Love, Patriotism, Desire

It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for social issues and I think that's what it's for. I do a few things - I mess around with music a lot because that's a passion of mine. If something strikes me and I want to share it, I do.
Tom Colicchio

Funny, Music, Around

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.
Siobhan Fahey

Love, Music, Whole

Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.
Terri Windling

Writing, Whether, Jordan

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

Time, Good, Enjoy

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.
Tommy Hilfiger

Success, Work, Hard

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.
Tina Weymouth

Music, Stop, Release

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies

Love, Sense, Common

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.
Kevin Pietersen

Work, Lie, Hard

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