Passionate famous quotes
04-23-2025
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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
-- Aaron Levie -
Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
-- Aaron Tveit -
The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.
-- Alan Lowenthal -
Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
-- Albert Camus -
There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.
-- Albert Camus -
Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.
-- Alice Duer Miller -
I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.
-- Alicia Witt -
Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.
-- Amy Lee -
My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.
-- Amy Lee -
I'm passionate about mobilizing young Latinos to get to the polls, so I'm involved with Voto Latino. Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country.
-- Ana Ortiz -
For 10 years, I have fought passionately for climate protection.
-- Angela Merkel -
My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.
-- Anita Roddick -
I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.
-- Ann Curry -
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
-- Anne Lamott -
The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.
-- Antonin Artaud -
The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.
-- Arthur Ganson -
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
-- Arthur Keith -
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.
-- Augustus William Hare -
Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.
-- Ava DuVernay -
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.
-- Barbara Hepworth -
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
-- Ben Bradlee -
Figure out what you're passionate about. If you're not passionate about something, go find it. Because we do not need more unengaged boring people to inhabit this planet.
-- Ben Heppner -
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.
-- Benjamin Moser -
A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.
-- Beth Comstock -
If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
-- Bette Midler -
If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
-- Biz Stone -
Just keep being true to yourself, if you're passionate about something go for it. Don't sacrifice anything, just have fun.
-- Blake Lewis -
To do what you love and are passionate about is a dream come true, My life is consumed by music and entertainment— and it’s the best life I could ever hope for.
-- Blake Lewis -
Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
-- Bradley Whitford -
Companies that hire employees..that are deeply passionate create companies that customers are really really passionate about, and those are the companies that have strong brands.
-- Brian Chesky -
Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
-- Brooke Burke -
I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.
-- Bruce Hornsby -
We all strive to find something unique and special that we are passionate about that separates us from the rest.
-- Carissa Moore -
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
-- Carla Bruni -
Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.
-- Carolina Herrera -
The passionate ones, the ones who go after what they want, may not get what they want, but they remain vital, in touch with themselves, and when they lie on their deathbeds, they have few regrets.
-- Charlie Kaufman -
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
-- China Mieville -
Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.
-- Chris Gardner -
You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.
-- Chris Gardner -
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
-- Chris Marker -
If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.
-- Claire Danes -
A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.
-- Clementine Paddleford -
I think it's not a big secret that I like to work a lot. I really go out for projects when I find things I'm passionate about.
-- Clifton Collins, Jr. -
It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.
-- Courteney Cox -
I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.
-- Curt Schilling -
I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
When you spend seven years of your life working on something that youre really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.
-- Danielle Fishel -
I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.
-- Danny Huston -
I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair.
-- Dave Gorman -
Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.
-- Dave Ramsey -
The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.
-- David Heyman -
I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.
-- David Nail -
Passionate worship always leads to personal witness. Always. And what that means is . . . if we’re not witnessing, there’s a problem with our worship. We’re not seeing God for who He is! We’re not realizing what He’s done! We’re not realizing the magnitude of what He’s done for our souls!
-- David Platt -
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
-- David Rockefeller -
Whatever you are passionate about, there is some skill associated with it and there's some service associated with it. Go for it, and don't worry about the money all the time.
-- Deepak Chopra -
The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Spirit is passionate; without passion no one can be truly spiritual.
-- Deepak Chopra -
But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty
-- Delia Smith -
I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.
-- Demi Lovato -
Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.
-- Demi Moore -
Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work.
-- Dennis Crowley -
You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.
-- Derek Fisher -
I often get myself in love trouble because I'm so passionate; I love so much and so deep.
-- Dolly Parton -
The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.
-- Donald Sutherland -
Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.
-- Donnie Yen -
When you have passionate fans, they feel like they're a part of your career.
-- Drake -
I feel like a total hippie right now. I'm passionate about all sorts of things - a lot of boring, cuddly Hallmark things, to be honest.
-- Dreama Walker -
I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.
-- Dreama Walker -
I love food. I'm a big food person. I'm really passionate about eating good food all the time.
-- Dreama Walker -
I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.
-- Dustin Clare -
As long as I can do something that I am passionate about and that I can really enjoy and the audience can enjoy. That is where my enthusiasm comes from.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
-- E. L. James -
Follow the truth to life and love what you do... Be passionate about it to the point where you’re willing to do anything for it.
-- Elie Tahari -
Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.
-- Elinor Glyn -
I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health.
-- Elizabeth Hurley -
Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?
-- Eminem -
Being passionate is not what makes you a girl, it's what makes you a human.
-- Emma Watson -
I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports.
-- Enrique Iglesias -
The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.
-- Eric Bana -
Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.
-- Eric Hoffer -
There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind.
-- Eric Hoffer -
My mom's passionate and energetic and very funny and enthusiastic.
-- Eric Stonestreet -
I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.
-- Erno Rubik -
When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.
-- Erwin McManus -
if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.
-- Ethel Smyth -
She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...
-- Eva Ibbotson -
Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God ...
-- Evelyn Underhill -
I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.
-- Felicia Day
