Quotes about Passion

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.

Hell is not populated mainly by passionate rebels but by nice, bland, indifferent, respectable people who simply never gave a damn.