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O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world...
-William Shakespeare
The Life and Death of King John (Constance at III, iv)
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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.
-Mary Decker Slaney
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
-Eugene W. Smith
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Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
-Bishop Robert South
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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.
-Lyn St. James
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Touch passion when it comes your way...It
-J. Michael Straczynski
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I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
-Elizabeth Taylor
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
-Teresa of Avila
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Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Passion is the trigger of success.
-Source Unknown
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The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.
-Source Unknown
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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
-David Viscott
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Chase your passion, not your pension.
-Denis Waitley
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
-Orson Welles
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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
-George Will
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
-Oprah Winfrey
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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.
-John Wooden
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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
-Wilbur Wright
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Books about Passion
