Are you searching for passion in life? We all lose touch with our purpose and passions. Here’s a collection of motivational quotes to refresh your soul. May these quotes inspire you so you can cherish every moment and seize every opportunity. Let these thoughts stimulate your imagination. Decide to make a difference today. Renew your mind and rediscover the passion of being alive.
“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
–Mitch Albom
“A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means”
–William Hazlitt
“If you don’t love what you do, you won’t do it with much conviction or passion.”
–Mia Hamm
“When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.”
–Nancy Coey
“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.”
–Jon Bon Jovi
“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”
–Benjamin Franklin
“The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.”
–Jose Marti
“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”
–John Maxwell
“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
“Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”
–Lord Byron
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”
–Soren Kierkegaard
“If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.”
–Wanda Sykes
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
–Carl W. Buechner
“You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.”
–Victoria Abril
“Chase your passion, not your pension.”
–Denis Waitley
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
–Che Guavara
“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.”
–Earl Nightingale
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
–Oscar Wilde
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
–Hebbel
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”
–C. S. Lewis
“Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.”
–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“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
“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”
–Hardy D. Jackson
“Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”
–Henry Miller
“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted… unbidden… it will stir… open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us… guides us… passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love… the clarity of hatred… and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we’d know some kind of peace… but we would be hollow… Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we’d be truly dead.”
–Joss Whedon
“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.”
–Roger L’Estrange
“It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.”
–Unknown
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
–Mignon McLaughlin
“Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.”
–John Wesley
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
–Oscar Wilde
“Passion is the genesis of genius.”
–Tony Robbins
“Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”
–Ice T
“Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.”
–Terri Guillemets
“Live with passion!”
–Tony Robbins
“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.”
–Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Follow your passion, and success will follow you.”
–Terri Guillemets
“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
–Albert Camus
“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”
–Oprah Winfrey
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
–Howard Thurman
“I love to play golf, and that’s my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.”
–Tiger Woods
“Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.”
–Friedrich Nietzsche
“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
–Edgar Allan Poe
“Renew your passions daily.”
–Terri Guillemets
“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”
–Bill Cosby
“Rest in reason; move in passion”
–Khalil Gibran quotes
“Great dancers aren’t great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.”
–Unknown
“The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
–Yves Saint Laurent
“It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.”
–George Santayana
“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.”
–Amiel
“But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.”
–Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
–Honoré de Balzac
“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”
–Coco Chanel
“Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.”
–Abraham Maslow
“You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.”
–Garrison Keillor
“I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.”
–Terri Guillemets
“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
–Nietzsche
“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”
–John Locke
“Fear is the passion of slaves.”
–Patrick Henry
“If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.”
–T. Alan Armstrong
“Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out you still care for that person”
–Unknown
“It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.”
–Christian Nevell Bovee
“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
“With out passion you don’t have energy, with out energy you have nothing.”
–Donald Trump
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.”
–Federico Fellini
“We must act out passion before we can feel it.”
–Jean-Paul Sartre
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
–Anthony J. D’Angelo
“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?”
–Virginia Woolf
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
–Edmund Burke
“Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.”
–William Penn
“Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.”
–Proverb
“Our passion is our strength.”
–Billie Joe Armstrong
“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
–Benjamin Disraeli
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