Quotes about Passion
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
- Samuel Johnson
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
- William Hazlitt
When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.
- Abraham Lincoln
Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.
- John Wesley
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.
- Charles Spurgeon
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
- George Bernard Shaw
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.
- Henry David Thoreau
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don't compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.
- James Franco
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
- Edmund Hillary