Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
Charles Dickens

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.
Mia Hamm

Chase your passion, not your pension.
Denis Waitley

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
Gertrude Stein

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Michel de Montaigne

Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
Mike Krzyzewski

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
Jon Bon Jovi

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke

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

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
William Penn

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
William Penn