Quotes About Passion

I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope.

I was fortunate enough to play in a number of finals, and I can still remember waking with butterflies in my stomach. It is at moments like those you realise why you fell in love with football in the first place.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

You have to remember that for more than half my life - probably until my children were born - acting was everything to me. I was obsessed by it, and I spent so much time just trying to get to the point where I was being paid to do it. Literally, I spent every waking moment thinking about acting.

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene.

Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work.

Imagine if you put many, many years of your life into something and were passionate about it, and you spent every waking moment putting love into it and trying to make it better, and people didn't understand that. You'd want them to.

I am an actor. I love acting, and I absolutely love what I do, but I don't want it to be every waking hour.

It is an immeasurable tragedy to spend a sizeable portion of one's waking hours doing a job that does not excite you nor infuse you with a sense of purpose.

When I am not shooting, all my waking hours are dedicated to horse riding and gymming.

Retail is my game. I spend every waking hour thinking about it. I started in the industry at the age of 18 after trying various other things that were mind-numbingly boring to me.

I've been involved in cycling all my life and at a high level for 20 years. It consumes your every waking minute whether you are aware of it or not: your last training session, your next session, what you are eating next. It is a passion.

I love my job. I love waking up in the morning and doing this, and I want to continue making a living doing it.

I think the thing I fear most in life is waking up one day and not feeling challenge - feeling ambivalent or glib about what I have to do that day.

Real Madrid is much more than I expected. I love waking up in the morning and going to Valdebebas.

I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.

My father was a songwriter and he had a studio, and I was always surrounded by musicians and people creating music. I think I just always believed that that was a normal job, and people waking up at lunchtime and working until late at night, that to me always just was quite a normal job.

I love the game. I love waking up every morning with the goal to win a Slam for the first time.

I think this is something special about Italy; waking up, taking the coffee in the morning and talking only about football.

We're going to pick a team that will go out there and give absolutely everything for Wales.

I love playing for Wales.

I just love riding my bike - no more so than at home in Cardiff and in South Wales on the roads where I started out, riding with my mates who I grew up with.

Every second I'm on the pitch for Wales is an honour, and I love playing.