Great Passion Quotes:

Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.

- Sabrina Lloyd

topic: Passion, Great Passion

Have a great passion in everything you do and it will be the most fun and rewarding life you can have.

- Bill Zanker

source: Source: www.97thfloor.com

topic: Fun, Passion, Great Passion

A great passion has no partner.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

source: "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

topic: Passion, Partners, Great Passion

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

- Honore de Balzac

source: Honore de Balzac (1899). “A Passion in the Desert”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

topic: Passion, Ends, Great Passion

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Peace, Living Your Passion, Great Passion

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Confidence, Inspirational Passion, Energizing

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Peace, Life And Love, Work, Fear Of Public Speaking, Speaking In Public

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

- Yves Saint Laurent

topic: Love, Beauty, Beautiful, Makeup And Beauty, Most Beautiful Woman In The World

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Passion, Live Your Dreams

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

- Martha Graham

source: "The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

- Federico Fellini

source: Robert Monroe (2014). “The Ultimate Journey”, p.205, Harmony

topic: Life, Positive, Football, Life And Passion, Live With Passion

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, True Leader, Inspirational Passion

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

- Bette Davis

source: Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

topic: Work, Passion, Hands, Drive And Passion, Great Passion

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

- Denis Diderot

source: "Pensées Philosophiques". Book by Denis Diderot, 1746.

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Romantic, Inspirational Passion, Live With Passion

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Wisdom, Passion, Intelligent, Crusades, Great Passion

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Job Satisfaction, Inspirational Hard Work

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Music, Passion, Jazz, Inspirational Music, Music Soul

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Inspirational, Passion, Joy, Great Passion, Passion For What You Do

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Passion, Follow Your Passion

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Inspirational, Philosophical, Passion, Great Passion

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Achievement

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Beautiful, Passion, Literature, Great Passion

So try to pursue the very things that you are passionate about- that is the difference between good and great!

- Shawn Doyle

topic: Passion, Differences, Trying, Living Your Passion, Great Passion

... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.

- Lev S. Vygotsky

topic: Girl, Strong, Passion, Strong Personality, Great Passion

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Leadership, War, Ambition, Life Ambition, My Ambition

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

topic: Faith, Passion, Soul, Great Passion, Absorbing

I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws himself into this great masterpiece and collapses from exhaustion when it's finished. It's really not that way at all.

- Richard Estes

topic: Passion, Thinking, Artist, Great Passion

Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was very young. That was a great passion of mine. So I suppose in the off season when I'm not making movies, I became more and more active as an environmentalist trying to be more vocal about issues that I felt were important.

- Leonardo DiCaprio

topic: Passion, Marine, Important, Off Season, Environmentalist

Quelque e  tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Great Passion

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Job Opportunities, Inspiring Business

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

- Matthew Arnold

source: "Culture and Anarchy" by Matthew Arnold, (Ch. I), 1869.

topic: Hate, Passion, Men, Perfect Man, Great Passion

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

- Lynn Abbey

topic: Passion, Historical, Trivia, Great Passion

The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Passion, Sacrifice, Thinking, Great Passion

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

- Denis Diderot

source: "Diderot". Book by Otis Fellows, 1977.

topic: Art, Passion, Creativity, Sublimity, Great Passion

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

- Agnes de Mille

topic: Passion, Creative, Energy, Great Passion

I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

- Amy Irving

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Pain, Believe, Passion, Great Passion

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

- Norman MacCaig

topic: Passion, Years, Way, Great Passion

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Passion, Style, Suits, Great Passion

I am a fantastic cook. It's my great passion.

- Sean Pertwee

topic: Passion, Fantastic, Cooks, Great Passion

The pope [Francis] speaks with great passion about the shame we should all feel when, as he puts it, "a man does not have the dignity of earning bread for his family," but is turned into a peripheral person, a welfare client, a dependent.

- George Weigel

source: Source: eppc.org

topic: Passion, Men, Doe, Great Passion

His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.

- Barbara Mikulski

source: Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

topic: Passion, School, Opportunity, Institute, Great Passion

When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired.

- Guido Palau

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Passion, Thinking, People, Great Passion

The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.

- Michael Owen

topic: Passion, League, England, Great Passion

In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.

- Renee Fleming

topic: Falling In Love, Passion, Years, Very Romantic, Sixteen Year Olds

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

- Dallas Campbell

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Passion, Ideas, Want, Great Passion

You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.

- Andrea Bocelli

source: "Andrea Bocelli: 'Only preparation helps my stagefright'". www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

topic: Passion, Exercise, Two, Great Passion

The best part about being a Blazer is the fans. The fans here are so loyal it feels like a college team with how close the fans and players are. They have such a great passion for the team that it makes it fun to be a part of and makes you want to work harder to make the team successful.

- LaMarcus Aldridge

topic: Fun, Team, Hard Work, Blazers, Great Passion

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

- Hugh Prather

source: Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

topic: Passion, Arguing, Certain, Great Passion

Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Passion, Sorrow, Victory, Great Passion, Great Victory

We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for a few hundred years and in different forms before that. There is great passion regardless of the fact that it's expensive and people who invest in it are giving money because they believe in it. They're not getting anything back other than satisfaction and enjoyment of hopefully many people having a human, deep, reflective and meditative experience that at its core is incredibly emotional.

- Jake Heggie

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Believe, Passion, Emotional, Great Passion, Giving Money