Quotes About Passion

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.

We only do well the things we like doing.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.

Success is like a liberation, or the first phase of a love affair.

The finer impulse of our nature.

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell, Harricum!

Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

Dowling Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.

For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die.

The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.

You know, my children, that humanity advances only by forming itself an ideal and endeavoring to realize it. Every passion has its ideal, which is modified by that of the whole.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.