Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wangari Maathai

Passion begins with a burden and a split-second moment, when you understand something like never before. That burden is on those who know. Those who don't know are at peace. Those of us who do know get disturbed and are forced to take action.

William Congreve

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

Wayne Huizenga

I really would not change anything. Have a passion for what you do, work hard, have great people with good personalities, enjoy the ride.

Wayne Gretzky

I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.

Wayne Gretzky

Maybe it wasn't the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.

Wayne Dyer

Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published.

Wayne Dyer

Joy & Satisfaction Show Up More Frequently & on Time when you have Passion

Tove Jansson

Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.

Ursula Andress

Collecting is my passion.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.

Twyla Tharp

Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.

Twyla Tharp

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft,

Twyla Tharp

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

William Godwin

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

William Godwin

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

William Golding

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

Wilfrid Laurier

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

Walter Lippmann

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

Voltaire

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Voltaire

Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

William Lloyd Garrison

And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'

William Booth

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.

William Butler Yeats

. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

William Butler Yeats

A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought....

William Butler Yeats

... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?

Walter Sickert

Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

Walter Isaacson

...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

Walter Isaacson

If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.

William Katt

Be ready, be prepared, be alert and then everybody around you will notice and they will want to share their skills with you even more. You're showing that you're enthusiastic, you care and that you're dedicated. It's not always easy, but if you've got a passion and a desire to do something then your natural energy will get you through.

Yo-Yo Ma

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

Yo-Yo Ma

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

Winston Churchill

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

Virginia Woolf

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.