“I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.”
“All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.”
“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
“It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”
“The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.”
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
“Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.”
“If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.”
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”
“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”
“Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.”
“If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.”
“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
“He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.”
“Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.”
“Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.”
“We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
“The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.”
“Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.”
“I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.”
“I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.”
“It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.”
“There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.”
“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”
“They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.”
“Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.”
“Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, ''Why am I doing this?'' It comes down to passion.”
“You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.”
“The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.”