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30 of the Best Quotes About Passion

Here are some of the most inspiring and entertaining quotes about passion

Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn. —John Wesley

Be the flame, not the moth. ―Giacomo Casanova

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

Logic is no answer to passion. —Herb Caen

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history. —Czeslaw Milosz

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

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness. —Sheryl Sandberg

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion. ―Martha Graham

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. —Abraham Lincoln

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. —William Samuel Johnson

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” —Albert Einstein

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

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

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? —Lord Byron

Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard. —Robin S. Sharma

Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beat out natural talent. —Pete Docter

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. —Jerome K. Jerome

Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day. —Marcus Buckingham

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness. ―Meg Wolitzer

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger. —Saul Bellow

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do. —Georgia O’Keefe

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. —Paul Theroux

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. —Rollo May

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? —Friedrich Nietzsche

Follow your passion. Nothing—not wealth, success, accolades or fame—is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy. —Jonathan Sacks

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else. —Nolan Bushnell

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. —Farrah Gray

You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking. —Daniel Pink

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. —Annie Dillard

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. —Mark Twain

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