Quotes About Passion

Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be successful, rich and famous, but if those are our goals, we're off on the wrong foot. ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.

You know what you do when you shit, singing is the same thing, only up!

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Soprano, basso, even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

The heart is never neutral.

It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

What we love to do we find time to do.

We all find time to do what we really want to do.

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.