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Quotes About Passion

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
~ Joseph Joubert
A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Energy is equal to desire and purpose.
~ Sheryl Adams
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
~ Charles Kingsley
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
~ Charles A. Cerami
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
~ Christian Dior
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily.
~ Bible
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
~ Colette
Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. Put some in!
~ David Starr Jordan
What is man but his passion?
~ Robert Penn Warren
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
~ George Hegel
If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
~ Chris Evert
Human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
~ Oswald Chambers
All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions.
~ Nicolas de Chamfort
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
~ Margery Allingham
You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.
~ Susanna Clark
When his enthusiasm goes, he's through as a player.
~ Pete Rose
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.
~ Julia Child
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed, but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
~ Bliss Carman
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
~ William Hazlitt
Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity, and he will set fire to the world.
~ Antoine de SaintExupery
Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
~ Ivern Ball