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Passion Quotes

"You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well."

Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian Celebrity

Passion, Pleasure

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"Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be."

Ruth Park, New Zealander Author

Passion, Writing, Newzealander

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"Never wait for the alarm clock to wake you up, your passion must wake you up against sluggish lifestyles. Positive passion keeps you hot until the work it finished!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Passion, Drive, Energy, Work

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

Martha Graham, American Dancer

"I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has."

Chris LeDoux, American Musician

Passion, Uniqueness

"Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know."

Terri Windling, American Artist

Passion, Writing

"The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless."

Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

"Sensual excess drives out pity in man."

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist

Passion, Excess, Man, Pity

"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, American Comedian

Passion, Wishing

"Can-do" is the parent of "Have-done". No passion, no production!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Passion, Production, Success, Achievement

"Do your own thing with love and passion. You will be happy, no matter the result of your action."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Passion, Love, Happiness, Action

"We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses."

Jackie DeShannon, American Musician

Passion, Right, Want

"There are two causes for "burning": passionate desires coming from our thoughts, and flirting."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Passion, Burning, Desires, Thoughts, Flirting

"If you have no good drive in you, your life will not be steered through a good direction. It will miss its destined station. Passion or drive is what moves the vehicle of a fulfilled life."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Passion, Drive, Success, Destiny

"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion."

Antisthenes, Greek Philosopher

"When you do things with love,it is a song of your heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Passion, Love, Heart, Song

"If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "Do I love it? Can I have peace within if I refuse to have it done?" This is passion."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Passion, Love, Peace, Commitment

"The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Passion, Reason, Will

"To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air."

Richard Whately, English Writer

"An Ignited Passion Results In Purpose Accomplishment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Passion, Purpose, Faith, Dedication

"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Passion, Wounds

"Passions are the gales of life."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

"Passion is the genesis of genius."

Tony Robbins, American Author

Passion, Genius

"I got so strongly addicted to love that I may not be able to breath without it. I fall so fondly in love with poetry that I read it in my dreams often and even unknowingly."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Passion, Love, Poetry, Addiction, Dreams

"Where passion leads or prudence points the way."

Robert Lowth, English Author

Passion, Prudence

"The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists."

H. Allen Smith, American Journalist

"Give chance to your wheels to turn with their maximum potentials as long as your passion fuels your life. Don't give up, you are about to make an overturn!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Passion, Drive, Ambition, Determination

"Follow your passion."

Joel Siegel, American Critic

"Do what you love, and love what you do."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

"If you don't do what you love, you will never love what you do. And if you don't love whatever you do, you are likely to be worried anytime a duty is assigned to you concerning that."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Passion, Love, Work, Motivation

"A play is a passion."

Jerome Lawrence, American Playwright

"Don't find work, find an interest and do it with love. If you can earn a living doing something interesting, then you will never have to work."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Passion, Work, Interest, Love

"My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad."

Zinedine Zidane, French Athlete

Passion, Play, Want

"It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all."

Angela Carter, English Novelist

"Whatever makes you crazy is what you were created to crack. Whatever makes you sleepless is what you were born to succeed in. Don't give up!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Passion, Determination, Success, Growth

"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Passion, Reason

"Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know."

Zakk Wylde, American Musician

"Let us dance with passion. Our hearts will be dancing with joy and the magic of the music."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Passion, Dance, Heart, Joy

"Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow."

Isabelle Adjani, French Actress

Passion, Surprises, Tomorrow

"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, British Author

"Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Passion, Success, Achievement, Potential

"God shows us his plan and connects us with others who share the same passion to extend his kingdom."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Passion, God, Plan, Kingdom

"Never raise your voice but raise yourself and your passion for love and life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Passion, Voice, Love, Life

"If you cannot see the rainbow because your face is down, don't argue that no rainbow is up there. Lift up your passion and take your dreams off the ground!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Passion, Rainbow, Dream, Inspiration

"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

"Do it with great love or forget it."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Passion, Love, Action, Commitment, Effort

"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."

Horace, Roman Poet

"I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers."

Harold Ramis, American Actor

Passion, Spiritual, Woman

"Dream the life you desire. Then live it with passion and love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Passion, Dream, Life, Love

"I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

Passion, Project

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