Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Godin

Catering to the passionate is exactly what you should do.

Seth Godin

If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true?

Seth Godin

If you're short on passion, it might be because your #‎ goals are too small or the #‎ fear ...

Tom Hiddleston

I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, who are afraid of showing they care because it’s uncool. It’s uncool to have passion. It’s so much easier to lose when you’ve shown everyone how much you don’t care if you win or lose. It’s much harder to lose when you show that you care, but you’ll never win unless you also stand to lose. I’ve said it before. Don’t be afraid of your passion, give it free reign, and be honest and work hard and it will all turn out just fine.

Tom Cruise

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

Siobhan Fahey

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

Simon Van Booy

The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.

Rajneesh

When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.

Rajneesh

As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.

Rajneesh

Don't hanker for the other world. Live this world, and live it with intensity, with passion. Live it with totality, with your whole being. And out of that whole trust, out of that life of passion, love, and joy, you will become able to go beyond.

Mercedes Lackey

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

Mercedes Lackey

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

Michael Moritz

History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.

John Milton

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

John Milton

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

John Milton

Calm of mind, all passion spent.

Norm MacDonald

Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.

Norm MacDonald

The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.

Nolan Bushnell

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.

Nita Ambani

What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in.

Niles Eldredge

Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed passions.' He spoke of the 'lack of total agreement even within the warring camps,' and added, 'things really are in an uproar these days . . . Sometimes it seems as though there are as many variations on each [evolutionary] theme as there are individual biologists.'

Mitch Albom

I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.

Miguel de Cervantes

The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

Neil Jackson

I get inspired with passion, I think. I get inspired by people who are just passionate, and it doesn't matter what they do or what they're passionate about.

John Piper

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

John Piper

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.

John Wesley

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

John Wesley

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

John Tillotson

It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.

John Tillotson

Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

Sherry Turkle

Hold on to your passion - you'll need it!

Sherwood Anderson

Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when adventure was a possible thing for her. Particularly she remembered one who had for a time been her lover and who in the moment of his passion had cried out to her more than a hundred times, saying the same words madly over and over: "You dear! You dear! You lovely dear!" The words, she thought, expressed something she would have liked to have achieved in life.

Nicolas Chamfort

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.