Quotes about Passion
"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
— Napoleon Hill
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
— John Henry Newman
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
— Marquis de Sade
Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.
— Oprah Winfrey
To be God's people, to love Him fervently with whole hearts, is our sole desire.
— Elizabeth George
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
— Elie Wiesel
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?
— JM Coetzee
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
— William Hazlitt
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
— Cicero
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
— John Keats