Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessica Alba

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

Jean de la Bruyere

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

Jean de la Bruyere

Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

Jean de la Bruyere

A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.

Jay Haas

I think Curtis is finally getting his drive back, his passion for the game, ... I think he's starting to enjoy that competition again. That's what drives us all out here that feeling of being able to hit a good shot in a tough situation.

Candice Accola

As far as the quote-unquote shipping community goes, I love the passion behind anyone who ships Caroline and Klaus. They are very hardcore shippers...

Candace Bushnell

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

James Hilton

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

Joseph Joubert

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

Joseph Joubert

The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

Joseph Joubert

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

Kristin Kreuk

I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.

Kristin Hannah

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

Myles Munroe

Purpose gives birth to hope and instills the passion to act.

Moliere

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Moliere

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved

Moliere

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Moliere

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Mike Birbiglia

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

Nat Wolff

I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.

Nancy Lublin

Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.

Ken Auletta

Passion without focus can lead you astray.

Ken Auletta

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

Keegan-Michael Key

I think the reason I went into theater, ultimately, was because that was one of multicultural groups. Because you identify with other people that share similar passions to you, so it didn't matter how much melanin was in their skin.

Keith Carradine

[Mel Gibson] had just directed The Passion [Of The Christ], and it had just been released as we started production on Complete Savages. But I have to say, nobody ever talked about it, and he never brought any of that to work. He was just delightful, and I had a great time.

Kathryn Minshew

The best cover letters I've read are from people who have a passion for my company, and can make that passion come to life on a page. The letters that make me say, 'Yes! This person really gets it.' Because, at the end of the day, I want to hire people who already get it. Most hiring managers do.

Kathy Bates

I find that I'm fighting to keep my energy and my passion centered on the work and not on "Will this get me an Oscar?" - which is the way people are starting to talk to me. I'm not interested in the way people are starting to talk to me. I'm not interested in looking at a role that way. That's not what I ever did, and it's not how I can continue to do my work.

Katheryn Winnick

I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that you get paid is just a bonus

Kate Chopin

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

Kate Chopin

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.

Karl A. Menninger

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

Julia Ward Howe

When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.